Amorphous solids display a ductile to brittle transition as the kinetic stability of the quiescent
glass is increased, which leads to a material failure controlled by the sudden emergence of …

Widespread processes in nature and technology are governed by the dynamical transition
whereby a material in an initially solid-like state, whether soft or hard, then yields. Major …

We study theoretically the yielding of sheared amorphous materials as a function of
increasing levels of initial sample annealing prior to shear, in three widely used constitutive …

We perform molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the effect of a glass preparation
on its yielding transition under oscillatory shear. We use swap Monte Carlo to investigate a …

The response of amorphous materials to an applied strain can be continuous or instead
discontinuous if the initial configuration is very stable. We study theoretically how such a …

Amorphous solids are ubiquitous among natural and man-made materials. Often used as
structural materials for their attractive mechanical properties, their utility depends critically on …

We combine an analytically solvable mean-field elasto-plastic model with molecular
dynamics simulations of a generic glass former to demonstrate that, depending on their …

We consider the yielding behavior of amorphous solids under cyclic shear deformation and
show that it can be mapped into a random walk in a confining potential with an absorbing …

We present results on a series of two-dimensional atomistic computer simulations of
amorphous systems subjected to simple shear in the athermal, quasistatic limit. The …

Yielding behavior in amorphous solids has been investigated in computer simulations using
uniform and cyclic shear deformation. Recent results characterize yielding as a …