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Although there have been many studies of statistical mechanical models of magnetic friction, most of these have focused on the behavior in the steady state. In this study, we prepare a system composed of a chain and a lattice of Ising spins…
A general procedure to investigate the elastic response and calculate the elastic constants of stressed and unstressed materials through continuum field modeling, particularly the phase field crystal (PFC) models, is presented. It is found…
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Macroscale continuum mechanics simulations rely on material properties stemming from the microscale, which are normally described using phenomenological equations of state (EOS). A method is proposed for the automatic generation of…
We derive conditions under which a general nonlinear mechanical system can be exactly reduced to a lower-dimensional model that involves only the most flexible degrees of freedom. This Slow-Fast Decomposition (SFD) enslaves exponentially…
We develop an energy-landscape based elasto-plastic model to understand the behaviour of amorphous solids under uniform and cyclic shear. Amorphous solids are modeled as being composed of mesoscopic sub-volumes, each of which may occupy…
We present experimental evidence that the effective medium approximation (EMA), developed by D.C. Morse [Phys. Rev. E {\bf 63}, 031502, (2001)], provides the correct scaling law of the macroscopic plateau modulus…
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