Abstract
Fracture of disordered media is a technologically important subject for which, up to now, not very much has been theoretically understood1. Materials as diverse as concrete, textiles, glass, paper and soil can rupture if they are subjected to an external strain and we want to ask if there might nevertheless be some universal laws governing the size dependence of the breaking, independent of the elastic properties of the material and of the type of disorder.
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Herrmann, H.J. (1988). The Hunt for Universality in Fracture. In: Jullien, R., Peliti, L., Rammal, R., Boccara, N. (eds) Universalities in Condensed Matter. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 32. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51005-2_25
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