Resistive switching (RS) phenomena are reversible changes in the metastable resistance
state induced by external electric fields. After discovery∼ 50 years ago, RS phenomena …

Crackling noise arises when a system responds to changing external conditions through
discrete, impulsive events spanning a broad range of sizes. A wide variety of physical …

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 …

Quasibrittle (or brittle heterogeneous) materials are becoming increasingly important for
modern engineering. They include concretes, rocks, fiber composites, tough ceramics, sea …

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 …

The acoustic emission technique is applied to identify defects and damage in reinforced
concrete structures and masonry buildings. By means of this technique, a particular …

An analysis of the Acoustic Emission (AE) activity and of the energy fields is carried out with
reference to three-point bending (TPB) tests on concrete beams with different sizes. First, a …

We review and discuss recent progress in modelling non-linear and non-local transport
processes in heterogeneous media. The non-locality that we consider is caused by long …

A stochastic description of traffic flow, called probabilistic traffic flow theory, is developed.
The general master equation is applied to relatively simple models to describe the formation …

We present a unified theory of fracture in disordered brittle media that reconciles apparently
conflicting results reported in the literature. Our renormalization group based approach …