Conditions for abrupt failure in the democratic fiber bundle model

Abstract

We argue that the existence of abrupt failure in the democratic fiber bundle model is more general than concluded by da Silveira in his comment (cond-mat/9709327). We refute his claim that the nature of the rupture process in the DFBM depends on the ``disorder distribution only via its large failure strength behavior''.

1 page in revtex, reply to the comment to our letter J.V. Andersen, D. Sornette and K.-T. Leung, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2140 (1997)

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• Comment on "Tricritical Behavior in Rupture Induced by Disorder"

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