Diodati, P; Piazza, S; Marchesoni, F - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 340 (2004) 4, pp. 598-606
The statistics of acoustic emission (AE) from as diverse processes as volcanic activity (Stromboli, Italy) and martensitic transformations driven by thermal cycles, is shown to verify the paradigm of self-organized criticality. However, catastrophic event predictability both in laboratory (the...