Stylolites are ubiquitous geo-patterns observed in rocks in the upper crust, from geological
reservoirs in sedimentary rocks to deformation zones, in folds, faults, and shear zones …

Abstract Domain walls in magnets, vortex lattices in superconductors, contact lines at
depinning, and many other systems can be modeled as an elastic system subject to …

A multitude of systems ranging from the Barkhausen effect in ferromagnetic materials to
plastic deformation and earthquakes respond to slow external driving by exhibiting …

Nature has successfully evolved the mushroom-shaped contact geometry in many
organisms in order to solve the attachment problem. We studied the detachment process of …

Numerous systems ranging from deformation of materials to earthquakes exhibit bursty
dynamics, which consist of a sequence of events with a broad event size distribution. Very …

Dense monolayers of living cells display intriguing relaxation dynamics, reminiscent of soft
and glassy materials close to the jamming transition, and migrate collectively when space is …

We briefly introduce the generic framework of disordered elastic systems (DES), giving a
short 'recipe'of a DES modeling and presenting the quantities of interest in order to probe the …

We investigate the impact fragmentation of spherical solid bodies made of heterogeneous
brittle materials by means of a discrete element model. Computer simulations are carried out …

Material failure often gives rise to strong fluctuations that reflect on the rough trajectory
followed by cracks and on their intermittent dynamics. Deciphering these fluctuations is a …

Slowly driven elastic interfaces, such as domain walls in dirty magnets, contact lines wetting
a nonhomogeneous substrate, or cracks in brittle disordered material proceed via …