Conditions for abrupt failure in the democratic fiber bundle model

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that abrupt failure in the democratic fiber bundle model is more common than previously thought and refutes claims that the rupture process depends solely on the large failure strength behavior of disorder distributions.

Contribution

It shows that abrupt failure occurs under broader conditions than previously established, challenging earlier assumptions about the role of disorder distributions.

Findings

Abrupt failure is more general in the DFBM than previously concluded.

Refutes the claim that rupture depends only on large failure strength behavior.

Expands understanding of failure mechanisms in fiber bundle models.

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''.