The deformation and flow of disordered solids, such as metallic glasses and concentrated
emulsions, involves swift localized rearrangements of particles that induce a long-range …

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 …

Concepts, methods and techniques of statistical physics in the study of correlated, as well as
uncorrelated, phenomena are being applied ever increasingly in the natural sciences …

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 propose an analytically tractable model of loading-dependent cascading failure that
captures some of the salient features of large blackouts of electric power transmission …

Bringing together basic ideas, classical theories, recent experimental and theoretical
aspects, this book explains desiccation cracks from simple, easily-comprehensible cases to …

The anelastic deformation of solids is often treated using continuum damage mechanics. An
alternative approach to the brittle failure of a solid is provided by the discrete fibre-bundle …

Catastrophic disruptions of large, interconnected infrastructure systems are often due to
cascading failure. For example, large blackouts of electric power systems are typically …

The statistical properties and the localization of fracture precursors on heteregeneous
materials is studied by recording their acoustic emission as a function of the applied load. It's …

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 …