Fig. 14

Quantification of the fluctuations at crack nucleation and growth of average stress: Simulations of sample size L_x = 8 μm, L_y = 0.5 mm, and L_z = 1.0 mm where D = 2.995 and W = 64 μm as a function of the average strain where (a) is the average stress vs. average strain, (b) is the zoomed-in view of the fluctuations for disorder strengths 0.4 and 0.8, and (c) is the difference in the rate of change of the average stress and the initial rate of change of linear increase in average stress vs. average strain. . The figure legends signify the disorder variance ratio R_G that varies from 0.0 to 0.8