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Mechanical and microscopic properties of the reversible plastic regime in a 2D jammed material

arXiv:1308.6806 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.028302

Abstract

At the microscopic level, plastic flow of a jammed, disordered material consists of a series of particle rearrangements that cannot be reversed by subsequent deformation. An infinitesimal deformation of the same material has no rearrangements. Yet between these limits, there may be a self-organized plastic regime with rearrangements, but with no net change upon reversing a deformation. We measure the oscillatory response of a jammed interfacial material, and directly observe rearrangements that couple to bulk stress and dissipate energy, but do not always give rise to global irreversibility.

5 pages, 4 figures. A supplemental PDF detailing methods, and movies corresponding to Fig. 2(a, b, f), are available

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