We subjected the time series of quasi-rigid-body vibration pulses (elastic emissions) from laboratory fracture carried out by a piezoelectric accelerometer on concrete and rock specimens under uniaxial compression to statistical analysis. In both cases, we find that the waiting-time distribution can be described by a scaling law extending over several orders of magnitude. This law is indistinguishable from a universal scaling law recently proposed for the waiting-time distributions of acoustic emissions in heterogeneous materials and earthquakes, suggesting its general validity for fracture processes independent of modes and magnitude scales.

Scaling in temporal occurrence of quasi-rigid-body vibration pulses due to macrofractures / Niccolini, Gianni; Schiavi, Alessandro; Tarizzo, Paolo; Carpinteri, Alberto; Lacidogna, Giuseppe; MANUELLO BERTETTO, AMEDEO DOMENICO BERNARDO. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS. - ISSN 1539-3755. - Vol. 82:(2010), pp. 46115/1-46115/5. [10.1103/PhysRevE.82.046115]

Scaling in temporal occurrence of quasi-rigid-body vibration pulses due to macrofractures

NICCOLINI, Gianni;SCHIAVI, ALESSANDRO;TARIZZO, PAOLO;CARPINTERI, Alberto;LACIDOGNA, GIUSEPPE;MANUELLO BERTETTO, AMEDEO DOMENICO BERNARDO
2010

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We subjected the time series of quasi-rigid-body vibration pulses (elastic emissions) from laboratory fracture carried out by a piezoelectric accelerometer on concrete and rock specimens under uniaxial compression to statistical analysis. In both cases, we find that the waiting-time distribution can be described by a scaling law extending over several orders of magnitude. This law is indistinguishable from a universal scaling law recently proposed for the waiting-time distributions of acoustic emissions in heterogeneous materials and earthquakes, suggesting its general validity for fracture processes independent of modes and magnitude scales.
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