Due to the structurally disordered arrangement of atoms and deviation from thermodynamic
equilibrium, the physical and mechanical properties of metallic glasses can vary with time …

Glassy polymers exhibit a strong thermomechanical coupling when subjected to mechanical
loading. A homogeneous strain distribution can be achieved in uniaxial compression …

Dynamic mechanical relaxation is an important metric to understand the
mechanical/physical properties of amorphous solids which are of viscoelastic nature. Due to …

Pre-deformed glassy polymers exhibit distinct stress responses with opposite loading
directions, referred to as the Bauschinger effect. Although this phenomenon has been …

The application of traditional crystalline materials as structural materials cannot meet critical
design challenges due to low-temperature brittleness. To address this issue, this study …

Mean-field theory is extensively used in statistical physics, solid-state physics, and
biophysics to compress a large number of interacting multi-body problems into an effective …

Establishing quantifiable links between individual-particle dynamics and macroscopic
response of granular materials has been a longstanding challenge, with implications in …

The strength-ductility paradox in structural materials remains a long-standing dilemma in
advanced materials synthesis. Metallic glasses (MGs) that are structural materials of …

Mesoscale elasto-plastic models, with statistically distributed structural properties and elastic
coupling between discrete blocks, have been shown to quantitatively reproduce the main …

We develop a new finite deformation constitutive model for metallic glass within the
framework of irreversible nonequilibrium thermodynamics. To consider the intrinsically out-of …