3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Anomalous Creep as a Precursor to Failure in Granular Materials
Kasra Farain, Daniel Bonn
Granular materials, composed of discrete solid grains, can be modeled as simple mechanical systems. However, these materials can undergo spontaneous slow deformation, or creep, eve…
cond-mat.soft2021
Non-monotonic dynamics in the onset of frictional slip
Kasra Farain, Daniel Bonn
The transition from static to dynamic friction is often described as a fracture-like instantaneous slip. However, studies on slow sliding processes aimed at understanding frictiona…
cond-mat.soft2019
A relaxation constant in the folding of thin viscoelastic sheets
Kasra Farain
If one folds a thin viscoelastic sheet under an applied force, a line of plastic deformation is formed which shapes the sheet into an angle. We determine the parameters that define…