Cooperative Dynamics in the Fiber Bundle Model

We discuss the cooperative failure dynamics in fiber bundle model where individual elements or fibers are Hookean springs that have identical spring constants but different breaking strengths. When is stressed strained, especially equal-load-sharing scheme, load supported by failed gets shared equally rest of surviving fibers. This mean-field-type statistical feature (absence fluctuations) load-sharing mechanism helped major analytical developments study and precise comparisons with simulation results. intend to present a brief review on these developments.