Bikas K. Chakrabarti
Published 2006-09-25Version 1
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.
Comments: 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
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