Creep rupture as a non-homogeneous Poissonian process

Creep rupture as a non-homogeneous Poissonian process

Creep rupture of heterogeneous materials occurring under constant sub-critical external loads is responsible for the collapse of engineering constructions and for natural catastrophes. Acoustic monitoring of crackling bursts provides microscopic insight into the failure process. Based on a fiber bundle model, we show that the accelerating bursting activity when approaching failure can be descri...

Spatiotemporally complete condensation in a non-Poissonian exclusion process.

We investigate a non-Poissonian version of the asymmetric simple exclusion process, motivated by the observation that coarse graining the interactions between particles in complex systems generically leads to a stochastic process with a non-Markovian (history-dependent) character. We characterize a large family of one-dimensional hopping processes using a waiting-time distribution for individua...

Ignition Process in a Non-Homogeneous Mixture

Creep and Creep–Rupture Behavior of Wood-Based Structural Panels

This paper summarizes a cooperative research program between the USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory (FPL), in Madison, Wisconsin, and Forintek Canada Corp. in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This research program provided detailed creep–rupture and some creep information for composite panel products. Commercially produced plywood, oriented strandboard (OSB), and minimally alig...

Creep rupture of viscoelastic fiber bundles.

We study the creep rupture of bundles of viscoelastic fibers occurring under uniaxial constant tensile loading. A fiber bundle model is introduced that combines the viscoelastic constitutive behavior and the strain controlled breaking of fibers. Analytical and numerical calculations showed that above a critical external load the deformation of the system monotonically increases in time resultin...