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Avalanches in the Athermal Quasistatic Limit of Sheared Amorphous Solids: An Atomistic Perspective

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We study the statistical properties of the yielding transition in model amorphous solids in the limit of slow, athermal deformation. Plastic flow occurs via alternating phases of elastic loading punctuated by rapid dissipative events in the form of collective avalanches. We investigate their characterization through energy vs. stress drops and at multiple stages of deformation, thus revealing a change of spatial extent of the avalanches and degree of stress correlations as deformation progresses. We show that the statistics of stress and energy drops only become comparable for large events in the steady flow regime. Results for the critical exponents of the yielding transition are discussed in the context of prior studies of similar type, revealing the influence of model glass and preparation history.

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Acknowledgements

Computing resources were provided by Compute Canada and by the HPC resources of IDRIS under the allocation 2020-A0090912010 made by GENCI. C.R acknowledges financial support by the ANR LatexDry Project Grant ANR-18-CE06-0001 of the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche.

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Computing resources were provided by Compute Canada and by the HPC resources of IDRIS under the allocation 2020-A0090912010 made by GENCI. C.R acknowledges financial support by the ANR LatexDry project grant ANR-18-CE06-0001 of the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche.

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  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy and Quantum Matter Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, Canada

    Jörg Rottler

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Ruscher, C., Rottler, J. Avalanches in the Athermal Quasistatic Limit of Sheared Amorphous Solids: An Atomistic Perspective. Tribol Lett 69, 64 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11249-021-01439-5

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