Random fuse model in the presence of self-healing

Random fuse model in the presence of self-healing

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Self-regeneration is a fundamental property of biological materials, leading to enhanced mechanical strength and toughness if subjected to stress and fatigue.Numerous efforts have been devoted to emulate this property and various self-healing materials have been designed with the aim of a practical adoption in construction and mechanical engineering.To achieve this, apunisw2 it is important to understand how damage evolution and fracture propagation are modified by self-healing and to evaluate how click here mechanical behaviour is affected before failure.

In this paper, we implement for the first time a self-healing procedure in the random fuse model, whose characteristic scaling properties have been widely studied in the literature on damage evolution modelling.We identify some characteristic signatures of self-healing, showing that it can delay the failure of a material undergoing loading, but it also lead to a hard-to-predict, more catastrophic breakdown.