Relaxation dynamics in strained fiber bundles

Abstract

Under an applied external load the global load-sharing fiber bundle model, with individual fiber strength thresholds sampled randomly from a probability distribution, will relax to an equilibrium state, or to complete bundle breakdown. The relaxation can be viewed as taking place in a sequence of steps. In the first step all fibers weaker than the applied stress fail. As the total load is redistributed on the surviving fibers, a group of secondary fiber failures occur, etc. For a bundle with a finite number of fibers the process stops after a finite number of steps, $t$. By simulation and theoretical estimates, it is determined how $t$ depends upon the stress, the initial load per fiber, both for subcritical and supercritical stress. The two-sided critical divergence is characterized by an exponent -1/2, independent of the probability distribution of the fiber thresholds.

6 pages, 4 figures

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