Deformation and flow of amorphous solids: Insights from elastoplastic models

A Nicolas, EE Ferrero, K Martens, JL Barrat - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018‏ - APS
The deformation and flow of disordered solids, such as metallic glasses and concentrated
emulsions, involves swift localized rearrangements of particles that induce a long-range …

History dependent plasticity of glass: A map** between atomistic and elasto-plastic models

DF Castellanos, S Roux, S Patinet - Acta Materialia, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Mesoscale elasto-plastic models, with statistically distributed structural properties and elastic
coupling between discrete blocks, have been shown to quantitatively reproduce the main …

Inertia and universality of avalanche statistics: The case of slowly deformed amorphous solids

K Karimi, EE Ferrero, JL Barrat - Physical Review E, 2017‏ - APS
By means of a finite elements technique we solve numerically the dynamics of an
amorphous solid under deformation in the quasistatic driving limit. We study the noise …

[PDF][PDF] Insights from the quantitative calibration of an elasto-plastic model from a Lennard-Jones atomic glass

DF Castellanos, S Roux… - Comptes …, 2021‏ - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
Quantitative multi-scale modeling of mechanical properties of disordered materials is still an
open challenge. Bridging scales requires an intense dialogue between physics and …

[PDF][PDF] Deformation and flow of amorphous solids: a review of mesoscale elastoplastic models

A Nicolas, EE Ferrero, K Martens… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2017‏ - researchgate.net
FIG. 1 Overview of amorphous solids. From left to right, top row: cellular phone case made of
metallic glass (1); toothpaste (2); mayonnaise (3); coffee foam (4); soya beans (5). Second …

Rheology of granular flows across the transition from soft to rigid particles

A Favier de Coulomb, M Bouzid, P Claudin… - Physical Review …, 2017‏ - APS
The rheology of dense granular flows is often seen as dependent on the nature of the
energy landscape defining the modes of energy relaxation under shear. We investigate …

Correlation and shear bands in a plastically deformed granular medium

K Karimi, JL Barrat - Scientific reports, 2018‏ - nature.com
Abstract Recent experiments (Le Bouil et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 2014, 112, 246001) have
analyzed the statistics of local deformation in a granular solid undergoing plastic …

Inertia effect of deformation in amorphous solids: A dynamic mesoscale model

XM Duan, L Yu, SL Cai, LH Dai, MQ Jiang - Journal of the Mechanics and …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Shear transformation (ST), as the fundamental event of plastic deformation of amorphous
solids, is commonly considered as transient in time and thus assumed to be an equilibrium …

Non-trivial rheological exponents in sheared yield stress fluids

E Agoritsas, K Martens - Soft Matter, 2017‏ - pubs.rsc.org
In this work we discuss possible physical origins of non-trivial exponents in the athermal
rheology of soft materials at low but finite driving rates. A key ingredient in our scenario is the …

Quasistatic kinetic avalanches and self-organized criticality in deviatorically loaded granular media

J Baró, M Pouragha, R Wan, J Davidsen - Physical Review E, 2021‏ - APS
The behavior of granular media under quasistatic loading has recently been shown to attain
a stable evolution state corresponding to a manifold in the space of micromechanical …