Review of selected fundamental topics on the interaction between phase transformations,
fracture, and other structural changes in inelastic materials is presented. It mostly focuses on …

The stick-slip phenomenon, at the basis of friction, is crucial for several applications ranging
from nanotechnology and biophysics to mechanics and geology. Deep understanding of …

Crystal plasticity causes structural fluctuations that can be scale-free and therefore admit
power-law distributions. Numerous experiments, modeling, and theory have reported a …

We show that nonlinear continuum elasticity can be effective in modeling plastic flows in
crystals if it is viewed as a Landau theory with an infinite number of equivalent energy wells …

We study the mechanical response of a dislocation-free 2D crystal under homogenous
shear using a new mesoscopic approach to crystal plasticity, a Landau-type theory …

Crystal plasticity occurs by deformation bursts due to the avalanchelike motion of
dislocations. Here we perform extensive numerical simulations of a three-dimensional …

Plastic deformations in crystals produce microstructures with randomly oriented patches of
unstressed lattice forming complex textures. We use a mesoscopic Landau-type tensorial …

Three-dimensional discrete dislocation dynamics simulations are used to study strain-
controlled plastic deformation of face-centered cubic aluminium single crystals. After …

By using modular functions on the upper complex half-plane, we study a class of strain
energies for crystalline materials whose global invariance originates from the full symmetry …

We consider 2D random Ising ferromagnetic models, where quenched disorder is
represented either by random local magnetic fields (random-field Ising model) or by a …