Overview
- Presents a state-of-the-art coverage of avalanches in different physical systems
- Offers a unified view of aspects in condensed matter, materials physics and geophysics
- Written by renowned international experts with an in-depth knowledge of the field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Understanding Complex Systems (UCS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Avalanches in Ferroelastics
- Avalanches in Fluid Imbibition
- Avalanches in Fracture Formation
- Characterization of Granular Materials
- Crackling Noise
- Man-field Aproach to Avalanches
- Modeling Avalanches in Materials Science
- Out-of-equilibrium Criticality
- Statistical Mechanics of Earthquakes
- Yield and Irreversibility in Amorphous Solids
About this book
This book provides the state-of-the art of the present understanding of avalanche phenomena in both functional materials and geophysics. The main emphasis of the book is analyzing these apparently different problems within the common perspective of out-of-equilibrium phenomena displaying spatial and temporal complexity that occur in a broad range of scales. Many systems, when subjected to an external force, respond intermittently in the form of avalanches that often span over a wide range of sizes, energies and durations. This is often related to a class of critical behavior characterized by the absence of characteristic scales. Typical examples are magnetization processes, plastic deformation and failure occuring in functional materials. These phenomena share many similarities with seismicity arising from the earth crust failure due to stresses that originate from plate tectonics.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Avalanches in Functional Materials and Geophysics
Editors: Ekhard K.H. Salje, Avadh Saxena, Antoni Planes
Series Title: Understanding Complex Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45612-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-45610-2Published: 28 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83330-9Published: 16 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-45612-6Published: 18 October 2016
Series ISSN: 1860-0832
Series E-ISSN: 1860-0840
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 298
Number of Illustrations: 91 b/w illustrations, 80 illustrations in colour
Topics: Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory, Geophysics/Geodesy, Structural Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, Geophysics and Environmental Physics