Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Universal features of amorphous plasticity

  • Zoe Budrikis,
  • David Fernandez Castellanos,
  • Stefan Sandfeld,
  • Michael Zaiser,
  • Stefano Zapperi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15928
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The universality class for plastic yield in amorphous materials remains controversial. Here authors present a tensorial mesoscale model that captures both complex shear patterns and avalanche scaling behaviour, which differs from mean-field models and suggests a distinct type of critical phenomenon.