Mechanical metamaterials are a class of artificial materials whose geometry is engineered to
have peculiar mechanical properties or programmed responses that are difficult to find in …

We investigate interface failure of model materials representing architected thin films in
contact with heterogeneous substrates. We find that, while systems with statistically isotropic …

Creep failure of hierarchical materials is investigated by simulation of beam network models.
Such models are idealizations of hierarchical fibrous materials where bundles of load …

We revisit the problem of describing creep in heterogeneous materials by an effective
temperature by considering more realistic (and complex) non-mean-field elastic …

The intermittent damage evolution preceding the failure of heterogeneous brittle solids is
well described by scaling laws. In deciphering its origins, failure is routinely interpreted as a …

AbstractWe study the creep behavior of quasi-brittle fiber composites (paper samples) under
constant uniaxial tensile loads, utilizing local strain fields produced by Digital Image …