Soft amorphous materials are viscoelastic solids ubiquitously found around us, from clays
and cementitious pastes to emulsions and physical gels encountered in food or biomedical …

Amorphous solids lack long-range order. Therefore identifying structural defects—akin to
dislocations in crystalline solids—that carry plastic flow in these systems remains a daunting …

Disordered solids are ubiquitous in engineering and everyday use. Although research has
made considerable progress in the last decades, our understanding of the mechanics of …

There are empirical strategies for tuning the degree of strain localization in disordered
solids, but they are system-specific and no theoretical framework explains their effectiveness …

Both atomistic and mesoscale simulation techniques have been extensively employed to
gain fundamental understanding of the structures, deformation mechanisms, and structure …

Yielding behavior in amorphous solids has been investigated in computer simulations using
uniform and cyclic shear deformation. Recent results characterize yielding as a …

While deeply supercooled liquids exhibit divergent viscosity and increasingly
heterogeneous dynamics as the temperature drops, their structure shows only seemingly …

As liquids approach the glass transition temperature, dynamical heterogeneity emerges as a
crucial universal feature of their behavior. Dynamic facilitation, where local motion triggers …

Upon loading, amorphous solids can exhibit brittle yielding, with the abrupt formation of
macroscopic shear bands leading to fracture, or ductile yielding, with a multitude of plastic …

We develop a mesoscopic model to study the plastic behavior of an amorphous material
under cyclic loading. The model is depinning-like and driven by a disordered thresholds …