0812.0699Dec 3, 2008Version related: More careful explanation for the critical slowing-down. General: The topological properties of non-thermal damage are described by the formalism of statistical mechanics. This is the continuation of arXiv:0805.0346. Comments, especially negative, are very welcome
Applicability and non-applicability of equilibrium statistical mechanics to non-thermal damage phenomena: II. Spinodal behavior
S. G. Abaimov
Abstract
This paper investigates the spinodal behavior of non-thermal damage phenomena. As an example, a non-thermal fiber-bundle model with the global uniform (meanfield) load sharing is considered. In the vicinity of the spinodal point the power-law scaling behavior is found. For the meanfield fiber-bundle model the spinodal exponents are found to have typical meanfield values.