Mechanical memories in solids, from disorder to design

JD Paulsen, NC Keim - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Solids are rigid, which means that when left undisturbed, their structures are nearly static. It
follows that these structures depend on history—but it is surprising that they hold readable …

Coupling rheology and segregation in granular flows

T Barker, M Rauter, ESF Maguire… - Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
During the last fifteen years there has been a paradigm shift in the continuum modelling of
granular materials; most notably with the development of rheological models, such as the …

Elastohydrodynamic friction of robotic and human fingers on soft micropatterned substrates

Y Peng, CM Serfass, A Kawazoe, Y Shao, K Gutierrez… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Frictional sliding between patterned surfaces is of fundamental and practical importance in
the haptic engineering of soft materials. In emerging applications such as remote surgery …

Scaling and intermittency in turbulent flows of elastoviscoplastic fluids

MS Abdelgawad, I Cannon, ME Rosti - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Non-Newtonian fluids have a viscosity that varies with applied stress. Elastoviscoplastic
fluids, the elastic, viscous and plastic properties of which are interconnected in a non-trivial …

Unified phase diagram of reversible–irreversible, jamming, and yielding transitions in cyclically sheared soft-sphere packings

P Das, HA Vinutha, S Sastry - Proceedings of the National …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Self-organization, and transitions from reversible to irreversible behavior, of interacting
particle assemblies driven by externally imposed stresses or deformation is of interest in …

Unbiased construction of constitutive relations for soft materials from experiments via rheology-informed neural networks

M Mahmoudabadbozchelou… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The ability to concisely describe the dynamical behavior of soft materials through closed-
form constitutive relations holds the key to accelerated and informed design of materials and …

Relationships between structure, memory and flow in sheared disordered materials

KL Galloway, EG Teich, XG Ma, C Kammer… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
A fundamental challenge regarding disordered solids is predicting macroscopic yield—the
point at which elastic behaviour changes to plastic behaviour—from the microscopic …

Proposal for a mechanical model of mobile shales

JI Soto, M Heidari, MR Hudec - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Structural systems involving mobile shale represent one of the most difficult challenges for
geoscientists dedicated to exploring the subsurface structure of continental margins. Mobile …

Origins of complexity in the rheology of Soft Earth suspensions

S Pradeep, PE Arratia, DJ Jerolmack - Nature communications, 2024 - nature.com
When wet soil becomes fully saturated by intense rainfall, or is shaken by an earthquake, it
may fluidize catastrophically. Sand-rich slurries are treated as granular suspensions, where …

The perpetual fragility of cree** hillslopes

NS Deshpande, DJ Furbish, PE Arratia… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Soil creeps imperceptibly but relentlessly downhill, sha** landscapes and the human and
ecological communities that live within them. What causes this granular material to 'flow'at …