Depinning transition in failure of inhomogeneous brittle materia
Author: Laurent Ponson
cond-mat/0805.1802, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.
Recommended with a commentary by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, CFM | View Commentary (PDF) |
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