TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Statistical physics of fracture and earthquakes
JO  - Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
A1  - Biswas, Soumyajyoti
A1  - Goehring, Lucas
A1  - Chakrabarti, Bikas K.
SP  - e0202
EP  - e0202
VL  - 377
IS  - 2136
N2  - Manifestations of emergent properties in stressed disordered materials are often the result of an interplay between strong perturbations in the stress field around defects. The collective response of a long-ranged correlated multi-component system is an ideal playing field for statistical physics. Hence, many aspects of such collective responses in widely spread length and energy scales can be addressed by the tools of statistical physics. In this theme issue, some of these aspects are treated from various angles of experiments, simulations and analytical methods, and connected together by their common base of complex-system dynamics.This article is part of the theme issue 'Statistical physics of fracture and earthquakes'.<br><br>© 2018 The Author(s).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1364-503X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2018.0202
ID  - ref1
ER  -