Interplay of rearrangements, strain, and local structure during avalanche propagation
Soft Condensed Matter
2020-09-25 v1 Materials Science
Abstract
Jammed soft disks exhibit avalanches of particle rearrangements under quasistatic shear. We follow the avalanches using steepest descent to decompose them into individual localized rearrangements. We characterize the local structural environment of each particle by a machine-learned quantity, softness, designed to be highly correlated with rearrangements, and analyze the interplay between softness, rearrangements and strain. Our findings form the foundation of an augmented elastoplastic model that includes local structure.
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@article{arxiv.2009.11414,
title = {Interplay of rearrangements, strain, and local structure during avalanche propagation},
author = {Ge Zhang and Sean Ridout and Andrea J. Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.11414},
year = {2020}
}