Disordered materials, like metallic glasses or silicate glasses, have an atomistic amorphous
structure preventing the formation of extended defects such as dislocations. Irreversible …

We review recent research into elastic and plastic deformation of metallic glasses, with an
emphasis on making connections between developments in theory and simulation (largely …

Plastic instabilities in amorphous materials are often studied using idealized models of
binary mixtures that do not capture accurately molecular interactions and bonding present in …

The last decade has seen major progresses in studies of elementary mechanisms of
deformation in amorphous materials. Here, we start with a review of physically based …

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 …

The shear-banding instability in quasistatically driven bulk metallic glasses emerges from
collective dynamics, mediated by shear transformation zones and associated nonlocal …

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 …

Metallic glasses are prone to fail mechanically via a shear-banding instability. In a
remarkable paper Johnson and Samwer demonstrated that this failure enjoys a high degree …

The deformation mechanisms of metallic glasses are fundamentally different from those in
crystalline materials. Unlike the collective motion of atoms associated with dislocations in …

Amorphous solids are randomly disordered without any long-range periodic atomic
arrangement and thus appear isotropic. Here, we show in metallic glasses that this view …