Self-organized criticality in a fibre-bundle-type model

Y Moreno, J.b Gómez and A.f Pacheco

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1999, vol. 274, issue 3, 400-409

Abstract: The dynamics of a fibre-bundle-type model with equal load sharing rule is numerically studied. The system, formed by N elements, is driven by a slow increase of the load upon it which is removed in a novel way through internal transfers to the elements broken during avalanches. When an avalanche ends, failed elements are regenerated with strengths taken from a probability distribution. For a large N and certain restrictions on the distribution of individual strengths, the system reaches a self-organized critical state where the spectrum of avalanche sizes is a power law with an exponent τ≃1.5.

Keywords: Self-organized criticality; Fibre-bundle model; Load transfer rules (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(99)00358-1

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