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Creep Ruptures in Heterogeneous Materials

“…In conclusion, we have shown that the interactions between the RE elements together with a large heterogeneity and a simple nonlinear rheology is sufficient to explain qualitatively and quasi-quantitatively our experiments. This model replaces the need for complex memory effects (such as the integro-differential Schapery long-memory formalism [12]) often invoked in the composite literature. A natural improvement of the model would be to relax the democratic load sharing rule as in [10] in order to introduce realistic elastic interactions.…”