Roux, Stéphane; Delaplace, Arnaud; Pijaudier-Cabot, Gilles - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 270 (1999) 1, pp. 35-41
We discuss the progressive damage of an heterogeneous interface modelled through a fiber bundle with random strength, coupled to two semi-infinite elastic blocks. We show that a hierarchical description of the elastic blocks and an homogeneous damageable interface gives rise to a cascade of...