Eur. Phys. J. B 61, 153-157 (2008)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2008-00054-8

Scaling of the size and temporal occurrence of burst sequences in creep rupture of fiber bundles

¹ Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Crete, Heraklion, 714 09, Greece
² IACM, FORTH, Heraklion, 711 10, Greece

Corresponding author: ^a theocharis@tem.uoc.gr

Received: 28 September 2007
Revised: 10 January 2008
Published online: 8 February 2008

Abstract

We present a detailed statistical analysis of the size and temporal occurrence of burst sequences in the creep rupture of a proposed linear viscoelastic fiber bundle model. According to the model, the burst sequences of fiber breaks display a power law asymptotic behavior analogous to that of the static-fracture [Kloster et al., Phys. Rev. E 56, 2615, (1997)]. Moreover, power law asymptotics apply to inter-arrival times between successive bursts with a universal exponent close to unity.