Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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976649 | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications | 2007 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
We explore the conductance of self-healing materials as a measure of the material integrity in the regime of the onset of the initial fatigue. Continuum effective-field modeling and lattice numerical simulations are reported. Our results illustrate the general features of the self-healing process; the onset of the material fatigue is delayed, by developing a plateau-like time-dependence of the material quality. We demonstrate that in this low-damage regime, the changes in the conductance and similar transport/response properties of the material can be used as measures of the material quality degradation.
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Authors
Alexander Dementsov, Vladimir Privman,