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Conditions for abrupt failure in the democratic fiber bundle model

D. Sornette, K. -T. Leung, J. V. Andersen

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/9712313

Abstract

We argue that the existence of abrupt failure in the democratic fiber bundle model is more general than concluded by da Silveira in his comment (cond-mat/9709327). We refute his claim that the nature of the rupture process in the DFBM depends on the ``disorder distribution only via its large failure strength behavior''.

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