In this letter, we develop a framework to study the mechanical response of athermal amorphous solids via a coupling of mesoscale and microscopic models. Using measurements of coarse grained quantities from simulations of dense disordered particulate systems, we present a coherent elasto-plastic model approach for deformation and flow of yield stress materials. For a given set of parameters, this model allows to match consistently transient and steady state features of driven disordered systems under both applied shear-rate and creep protocols.
@article{arxiv.2007.07162,
title = {An elasto-plastic approach based on microscopic insights for the steady state and transient dynamics of sheared disordered solids},
author = {Chen Liu and Suman Dutta and Pinaki Chaudhuri and Kirsten Martens},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.07162},
year = {2021}
}