The article investigates the evolution modes of cluster damage structure in brittle heterogeneous materials by using a three-dimensional probabilistic cellular automaton. By comparing the data of computer and physical experiments, there was established the essential role of the model parameter, which describes the intensity of the material destruction process under the influence of local overstress near the existing damage clusters - the probability of perimeter germination. The comparison of kinetic curves of damage accumulation and correlation functions showed that, depending on the probability value for damage cluster perimeter germination, two qualitatively different modes of evolution of damage accumulation process are observed. In this case, the best correspondence of correlation functions in model and physical experiment on pulsed electromagnetic emission is observed for perimeter germination probability values smaller than 0.2.
Three-dimensional cellular automaton model for the destruction of brittle heterogeneous materials
