Simulation of bursting activity during the creep rupture of a heterogeneous material modeled by a fiber bundle. Fibers undergoing slow degradation (green) trigger bursts of immediate breaking (other colors); crack starts in the upper right corner.
From the article:
Temporal and Spacial Evolution of Bursts in Creep RuptureZsuzsa Danku and Ferenc Kun
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 084302 (2013)
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