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PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
Volume 385, Issue 2, Pages 543-550Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2007.07.025
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self-healing materials; composites; conductance; material fatigue
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We explore the conductance of self-healing materials as a measure of the material integrity in the regime of the onset of the initial fatigue. Continuum effective-field modeling and lattice numerical simulations are reported. Our results illustrate the general features of the self-healing process; the onset of the material fatigue is delayed, by developing a plateau-like time-dependence of the material quality. We demonstrate that in this low-damage regime, the changes in the conductance and similar transport/response properties of the material can be used as measures of the material quality degradation. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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