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 …

Sudden and rapid mass movements associated with landslides and snow avalanches
present a hazard to life and infrastructure, yet their predictions and triggering mechanisms …

Fiber bundle models (FBMs) are useful tools in understanding failure processes in a variety
of material systems. While the fibers and load sharing assumptions are easily described …

We present a detailed analytical and numerical study of the avalanche distributions of the
continuous damage fiber bundle model (CDFBM). Linearly elastic fibers undergo a series of …

We study the effect of strong heterogeneities on the fracture of disordered materials using a
fiber bundle model. The bundle is composed of two subsets of fibers, ie a fraction 0⩽ α⩽ 1 of …

We present an extension of the continuous damage fiber bundle model to describe the
gradual degradation of highly heterogeneous materials under an increasing external load …

A new approach is proposed to study the statistical law of avalanches due to the fracture of a
heterogeneous interface. Firstly, a discrete interface is considered as a bundle of fibers …

We study the breakdown of a random fiber bundle model (RFBM) with n discontinuities in
the threshold distribution using the global load sharing scheme. In other words, n+ 1 …

The fiber bundle model with defect is an extended model based on the classical fiber bundle
model to describe the impact of the defect size and the defect density on the failure process …

In theory, the macroscopic fracture of materials should correspond with the thermodynamic
limit of the fiber bundle model. However, the simulation of a fiber bundle model with an …