Abstract Domain walls in magnets, vortex lattices in superconductors, contact lines at
depinning, and many other systems can be modeled as an elastic system subject to …

A basic micromechanical model for deformation of solids with only one tuning parameter
(weakening ε) is introduced. The model can reproduce observed stress-strain curves …

The study of critical phenomena and universal power laws has been one of the central
advances in statistical mechanicsduring the second half of the past century, explaining …

Electrical Impedance: Principles, Measurement, and Applications provides a modern and
much-needed overview of electrical impedance measurement science and its application in …

We study stress time series caused by plastic avalanches in athermally sheared disordered
materials. Using particle-based simulations and a mesoscopic elastoplastic model, we …

The failure dynamics in Si O 2-based porous materials under compression, namely the
synthetic glass Gelsil and three natural sandstones, has been studied for slowly increasing …

The existence of true scale-invariance in slowly driven models of self-organized criticality
without a conservation law, such as forest-fires or earthquake automata, is scrutinized in this …

Using numerical simulations, we investigate the impact of the demagnetization field and
finite temperature on the hysteresis phenomena in disordered ferromagnetics systems. We …

Crackling noise is a common feature in many dynamic systems,,,,,,,,, the most familiar
instance of which is the sound made by a sheet of paper when crumpled into a ball …

We review the present state of understanding of the Barkhausen effect in soft ferromagnetic
materials. Barkhausen noise (BN) is generated by the discontinuous motion of magnetic …