Fracture strength of disordered media: Universality, interactions, and tail asymptotics

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Manzato, Claudio ^a,b   Shekhawat, Ashivni ^c   Nukala, Phani K V V ^d   Alava, Mikko J ^b   Sethna, James P ^c   Zapperi, Stefano ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e CNR   (Italy)

^f ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC DISTRIBUTIONS; ASYMPTOTIC PROPERTIES; DISORDERED MEDIA; ELASTIC MEDIA; EXTREME VALUE; EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; EXTREME VALUE THEORY; FRACTURE STRENGTHS; GUMBEL DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM FUSE MODELS; RENORMALIZATION GROUP; TAIL ASYMPTOTICS;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS; WIND EFFECTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84856932927     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.065504     Document Type: Article

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