Abstract
The present project aims at investigating the effects of disorder, invariably present in real systems, on crack propagation in media subject to cyclic-load fatigue. Based on recent work [A. P. Vieira, J. S. Andrade, H. J. Herrmann, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 195503 (2008)], it is possible to start from a micrometric approach in order to analyze the relation between a local damage-accumulation …