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Avalanches As Failure Percursors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Stéphane ROUX*
Affiliation:
Unité Mixte CNRS/Saint-Gobain, 39 Quai Lucien Lefranc, 93303 Aubervilliers Cedex, France
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There exists basically two types of failure scenario: Either "brittle" where failure takes place suddenly without any sign which could help to anticipate over the failure, or "controlled" where the development of failure is progressive.

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