{ "id": "cond-mat/0609629", "version": "v1", "published": "2006-09-25T09:54:49.000Z", "updated": "2006-09-25T09:54:49.000Z", "title": "Statistical Physics of Fracture and Earthquake", "authors": [ "Bikas K. Chakrabarti" ], "comment": "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", "categories": [ "cond-mat.stat-mech", "cond-mat.mtrl-sci" ], "abstract": "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.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2006-09-25T09:54:49.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "statistical physics", "earthquake", "fractal overlap models", "fracture nucleation process", "fiber bundle models" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 15, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2006cond.mat..9629C" } } }