Serration and noise behaviors in plastically deforming solids are related to avalanches of
deformation processes. In the stress-strain curves, the serration characteristics are visible as …

From the traditional viewpoint of continuum plasticity, plastic deformation of crystalline solids
is, at least in the absence of so-called plastic instabilities, envisaged as a smooth and quasi …

We study the properties of strain bursts (dislocation avalanches) occurring in two-
dimensional discrete dislocation dynamics models under quasistatic stress-controlled …

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

Polyurethane (PU) elastomers are among the most used rubberlike materials due to their
combined merits, including high abrasion resistance, excellent mechanical properties …

Al matrix composites generally possess high strength but sacrifice ductility and corrosion
resistance resulting from the dense intergranular reinforcements. Herein, we report a solid …

We show that the singular dissipative potential of the phenomenological rate-independent
plasticity can be obtained by homogenization of a micro-model with quadratic dissipation …

We discuss avalanche and finite-size fluctuations in a mesoscopic model to describe the
shear plasticity of amorphous materials. Plastic deformation is assumed to occur through …

We review how the renormalized force correlator Δ (u), the function computed in the
functional renormalization-group (RG) field theory, can be measured directly in numerics …

We study avalanches in a model for a planar crack propagating in a disordered medium.
Due to long-range interactions, avalanches are formed by a set of spatially disconnected …