… ing the brittle failure of highly annealed amorphous materials, before it actually occurs. This
is an … it, both experimentally and in particle simulations of soft and hard amorphous materials. …

… amorphous material we consider an ensemble of elastoplastic elements, each corresponding
to a local mesoscopic region of material [… is required to see brittle failure. In contrast, slowly …

… The dynamics of fast fracture in brittle amorphous materials are reviewed. We first … materials,
in support of this picture. The dynamics of crack-front interactions with localized material …

… failure can be forecasted from the avalanche statistics. We show that this is not the case for
very brittle materials … (4) we expect a brittle failure to occur for some Σmax satisfying Σmax −Σb …

… , amorphous materials can yield in two qualitatively distinct ways. We show that well-annealed
systems yield in a discontinuous brittle … behaviors found in amorphous materials does not …

… behavior of amorphous materials discussed in this work. For simplicity, we adopt the Bingham
visco-plastic model (Bingham, 1917) to describe the flow of the amorphous materials, so …

… We should no more expect to be able to look at a deforming amorphous material and predict
where the next STZ event will occur than we should expect to be able to predict where the …

… Further the material can be loaded and recovered for post-mortem examination. Failure is …
within the grains and failure at grain boundaries in the amorphous intergranular phase. Thus it …

… In this contribution, we propose a new constitutive model for the ductile and brittle fracture
of amorphous polymers that relates the phenomena of crazing to a physical measure, …

… , the term 'brittle fracture' often implies that a material's ability to … for very brittle materials, it
is known that catastrophic failure is … Many ceramics and brittle polymers exhibit evidence of …