Statistical Physics of Fracture and Earthquake
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This chapter introduces the fracture nucleation process, their (extreme) statistics in disordered solids, in fiber bundle models, and in the two fractal overlap models of earthquake.
15 pages 11 figs, from: Modelling Critical & Catastrophic Phenomena in Geoscience: A Statistical Physics Approach; Eds. P. Bhattacharyya & B. K. Chakrabarti, Springer, Heidelberg (2005), pp. 3-26
15 pages 11 figs, from: Modelling Critical & Catastrophic Phenomena in Geoscience: A Statistical Physics Approach; Eds. P. Bhattacharyya & B. K. Chakrabarti, Springer, Heidelberg (2005), pp. 3-26