Statistical Physics Of Fracture Breakdown And Earthquake

Author : Soumyajyoti Biswas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 3527412190
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statistical Physics of Fracture, Breakdown, and Earthquake written by Soumyajyoti Biswas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the authors bring together basic ideas from fracture mechanics and statistical physics, classical theories, simulation and experimental results to make the statistical physics aspects of fracture more accessible. They explain fracture-like phenomena, highlighting the role of disorder and heterogeneity from a statistical physical viewpoint. The role of defects is discussed in brittle and ductile fracture, ductile to brittle transition, fracture dynamics, failure processes with tension as well as compression: experiments, failure of electrical networks, self-organized critical models of earthquake and their extensions to capture the physics of earthquake dynamics. The text also includes a discussion of dynamical transitions in fracture propagation in theory and experiments, as well as an outline of analytical results in fiber bundle model dynamics With its wide scope, in addition to the statistical physics community, the material here is equally accessible to engineers, earth scientists, mechanical engineers, and material scientists. It also serves as a textbook for graduate students and researchers in physics.

Author : Bikas K. Chakrabarti
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198520566
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statistical Physics of Fracture and Breakdown in Disordered Systems written by Bikas K. Chakrabarti and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under extreme conditions the mechanical or electrical properties of solids tend to destabilize, leading to failure or breakdown. These instabilities often nucleate or spread from disorders in the structure of the solid. This book by two experts in the field investigates current techniques for modeling these failure and breakdown processes. It illustrates the basic modeling principles through a series of computer and laboratory simulations and `table top' experiments. The book centers on three important case studies: electrical failures like fuse and dielectric breakdown; mechanical fractures; and earthquakes, which exhibit dynamic failure. The material will interest all graduate students and researchers studying disordered systems, whether their focus is the mechanical failure of solids, the electrical breakdown of conductors, or earthquake mechanics.

Author : Soumyajyoti Biswas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 3527672672
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statistical Physics of Fracture, Breakdown, and Earthquake written by Soumyajyoti Biswas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the authors bring together basic ideas from fracture mechanics and statistical physics, classical theories, simulation and experimental results to make the statistical physics aspects of fracture more accessible. They explain fracture-like phenomena, highlighting the role of disorder and heterogeneity from a statistical physical viewpoint. The role of defects is discussed in brittle and ductile fracture, ductile to brittle transition, fracture dynamics, failure processes with tension as well as compression: experiments, failure of electrical networks, self-organized critical models of earthquake and their extensions to capture the physics of earthquake dynamics. The text also includes a discussion of dynamical transitions in fracture propagation in theory and experiments, as well as an outline of analytical results in fiber bundle model dynamics With its wide scope, in addition to the statistical physics community, the material here is equally accessible to engineers, earth scientists, mechanical engineers, and material scientists. It also serves as a textbook for graduate students and researchers in physics.

Author : Yehuda Ben-Zion
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 9783034802536
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brittle Deformation of Solid and Granular Materials with Applications to Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faults written by Yehuda Ben-Zion and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquake fault zones exhibit hierarchical damage and granular structures with evolving geometrical and material properties. Understanding how repeated brittle deformation form the structures and how the structures affect subsequent earthquakes is a rich problem involving coupling of various processes that operate over broad space and time scales. The diverse state-of-the-art papers collected here show how insight can come from many fields including statistical physics, structural geology and rock mechanics at large scales; elasticity, friction and nonlinear continuum mechanics at intermediate scales; and fracture mechanics, granular mechanics and surface physics at small scales. This volume will be useful to students and professional researchers from Earth Sciences, Material Sciences, Engineering, Physics and other disciplines, who are interested in the properties of natural fault zones and the processes that occur between and during earthquakes.

Author : H.J. Herrmann
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483296121
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statistical Models for the Fracture of Disordered Media written by H.J. Herrmann and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of the century the technological desire to master the fracture of metals, concrete or polymers has boosted research and has left behind an overwhelming amount of literature. In a field where it seems difficult to say anything simple and new, the editors and authors of this book have managed to do just that.The approach to fracture taken here was not conceived by mechanical engineers or material scientists. It is essentially the by-product of exciting developments that have occurred in the last ten to fifteen years within a branch of theoretical physics, called statistical physics. Concepts such as ``percolation'' and ``fractals'', as models for the properties of fracture are not often considered by engineers. A particular aim of this volume is to emphasize the fundamental role disorder plays in the breaking process.The main scope of the volume is pedagogical and is at the same time an overview of fracture mechanics for physicists and an introduction to new concepts of statistical physics for mechanics and engineers. To this end the first half of the book consists of introductory chapters and the second half contains the results that have emerged from this new approach.

Author : Yan Y. Kagan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118637895
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earthquakes written by Yan Y. Kagan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive and methodologically rigorous analysis of earthquake occurrence. Models based on the theory of the stochastic multidimensional point processes are employed to approximate the earthquake occurrence pattern and evaluate its parameters. The Author shows that most of these parameters have universal values. These results help explain the classical earthquake distributions: Omori's law and the Gutenberg-Richter relation. The Author derives a new negative-binomial distribution for earthquake numbers, instead of the Poisson distribution, and then determines a fractal correlation dimension for spatial distributions of earthquake hypocenters. The book also investigates the disorientation of earthquake focal mechanisms and shows that it follows the rotational Cauchy distribution. These statistical and mathematical advances make it possible to produce quantitative forecasts of earthquake occurrence. In these forecasts earthquake rate in time, space, and focal mechanism orientation is evaluated.

Author : Pratip Bhattacharyya
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540353739
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modelling Critical and Catastrophic Phenomena in Geoscience written by Pratip Bhattacharyya and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-09-07 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a broad survey of models for critical and catastrophic phenomena in the geosciences, with strong emphasis on earthquakes. It assumes the perspective of statistical physics, which provides the theoretical frame for dealing with complex systems in general. This volume addresses graduate students wishing to specialize in the field and researchers working or interested in the field having a background in the physics, geosciences or applied mathematics.

Author : Christopher H. Scholz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107079039
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting written by Christopher H. Scholz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our understanding of earthquakes and faulting processes has developed significantly since publication of the successful first edition of this book in 1990. This revised edition, first published in 2002, was therefore thoroughly up-dated whilst maintaining and developing the two major themes of the first edition. The first of these themes is the connection between fault and earthquake mechanics, including fault scaling laws, the nature of fault populations, and how these result from the processes of fault growth and interaction. The second major theme is the central role of the rate-state friction laws in earthquake mechanics, which provide a unifying framework within which a wide range of faulting phenomena can be interpreted. With the inclusion of two chapters explaining brittle fracture and rock friction from first principles, this book is written at a level which will appeal to graduate students and research scientists in the fields of seismology, physics, geology, geodesy and rock mechanics.

Author : Ferenc Kun
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889740110
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fiber Bundle written by Ferenc Kun and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sebastiano D'Amico
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319217534
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earthquakes and Their Impact on Society written by Sebastiano D'Amico and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an integrated approach to the assessment of seismic hazards. The reduction of losses expected by future earthquakes is probably the most important contribution of seismology to society. Large earthquakes occurred in densely populated areas highlight the dramatic inadequacy of a massive portion of the buildings demonstrating the high risks of modern industrial societies. Building earthquake-resistant structures and retrofitting old buildings on a national scale can be extremely expensive and can represent an economic challenge even for developed western countries. Earthquakes can cause also several psychological problems due to the fact that such kind of disasters will result in casualties, collapsing of houses, strategic buildings and facilities and deeply affect a community. Moreover in our society it is necessary to properly plan emergency responses and rescues taking into account any possible secondary effect in order to avoid more casualties.