The fiber bundle model describes a collection of elastic fibers under load. The fibers fail
successively and, for each failure, the load distribution among the surviving fibers changes …

Disorder and long-range interactions are two of the key components that make material
failure an interesting playfield for the application of statistical mechanics. The cornerstone in …

We present a pedagogical introduction to self-organized criticality (SOC), unraveling its
connections with nonequilibrium phase transitions. There are several paths from a …

We introduce a fiber bundle model where the interaction among fibers is modeled by an
adjustable stress-transfer function that can interpolate between the two limiting cases of load …

We introduce a continuous damage fiber bundle model and compare its behavior with that of
dry fiber bundles. Several interesting constitutive behaviors, such as plasticity, are found in …

A 2-D numerical model for brittle creep and stress relaxation is proposed for the time-
dependent brittle deformation of heterogeneous brittle rock under uniaxial loading …

Previous acoustic emission (AE) experiments on ice single crystals, as well as numerical
simulations, called for the possible occurrence of self-organized criticality (SOC) in collective …

We investigate the breakdown of disordered networks under the action of an increasing
external—mechanical or electrical—force. We perform a mean-field analysis and estimate …

The acoustic emission of fracture precursors, and the failure time of samples of
heterogeneous materials (wood, fiberglass) are studied as a function of the load features …

A chemiluminescent mechanophore, bis (adamantyl-1, 2-dioxetane), is used to investigate
the covalent bond scission resulting from the sorption of chloroform by glassy poly (methyl …