  We study the cooperative rupture of multiple adhesion bonds under shared
linear loading. Simulations of the appropriate Master equation are compared
with numerical integration of a rate equation for the mean number of bonds and
its scaling analysis. In general, force-accelerated rupture is rather abrupt.
For small clusters and slow loading, large fluctuations occur regarding the
timepoint of final rupture, but not the typical shape of the rupture
trajectory. For vanishing rebinding, our numerical results confirm three
scaling regimes predicted before for cluster lifetime as a function of loading
rate. For finite rebinding, the intermediate loading regime becomes irrelevant,
and a sequence of two new scaling laws can be identified in the slow loading
regime.
