Primary Creep Scaling Law

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A newly discovered linear correlation between the duration of the early-stage decelerating creep phase and the total time to catastrophic failure in geomaterials.

Why It Matters

The finding establishes a universal, unified predictive framework for rupture time based solely on the initial, decelerating creep phase dynamics, which is highly novel across different material systems.

Evidence

We find that the duration of the early-stage creep, marked by the transition to the minimum (or quasi-stationary) deformation rate, correlates nearly linearly with the time to rupture over five orders of magnitude.

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