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Fracture strength: Stress concentration, extreme value statistics and the fate of the Weibull distribution
Zsolt Bertalan, Ashivni Shekhawat, James P. Sethna +1
The fracture strength distribution of materials is often described in terms of the Weibull law which can be derived by using extreme value statistics if elastic interactions are ig…
From damage percolation to crack nucleation through finite size criticality
Ashivni Shekhawat, Stefano Zapperi, James P. Sethna
We present a unified theory of fracture in disordered brittle media that reconciles apparently conflicting results reported in the literature. Our renormalization group based appro…
Fracture strength of disordered media: Universality, interactions and tail asymptotics
Claudio Manzato, Ashivni Shekhawat, Phani K. V. V. Nukala +3
We study the asymptotic properties of fracture strength distributions of disordered elastic media by a combination of renormalization group, extreme value theory, and numerical sim…