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 …

Mechanical deformation of amorphous solids can be described as consisting of an elastic
part in which the stress increases linearly with strain, up to a yield point at which the solid …

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 …

Failure of amorphous solids is fundamental to various phenomena, including landslides and
earthquakes. Recent experiments indicate that highly plastic regions form elongated …

The art of making structural, polymeric, and metallic glasses is rapidly developing with many
applications. A limitation is that under increasing external strain all amorphous solids (like …

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 …

Yield stress materials flow if a sufficiently large shear stress is applied. Although such
materials are ubiquitous and relevant for industry, there is no accepted microscopic …

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 …

Simulations are used to determine the effect of inertia on athermal shear of amorphous two-
dimensional solids. In the quasistatic limit, shear occurs through a series of rapid …

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 …