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SUBMITTER: Budrikis Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5500855 | biostudies-other | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nature communications 20170703
Plastic yielding of amorphous solids occurs by power-law distributed deformation avalanches whose universality is still debated. Experiments and molecular dynamics simulations are hampered by limited statistical samples, and although existing stochastic models give precise exponents, they require strong assumptions about fixed deformation directions, at odds with the statistical isotropy of amorphous materials. Here, we introduce a fully tensorial, stochastic mesoscale model for amorphous plasti ...[more]