Stress Drop Avalanches

Amorphous plasticity — power-law avalanche statistics, mean-field exponent τ ≈ 1.5
P(s) ~ s−τ, τ ≈ 1.5 (mean-field, d≥d_c)  |  Stress: σ(γ) with drops Δσ
Kaagan-Bhatt model: blocks with random thresholds, stress redistribution
Avalanches
Max size
~1.5
Exponent τ