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Local Nonlinear Elastic Response of Extracellular Matrices
Haiqian Yang, Estelle Berthier, Chenghai Li +5
Nonlinear stiffening is a ubiquitous property of major types of biopolymers that make up the extracellular matrices (ECM) including collagen, fibrin and basement membrane. Within t…
Nonlinear mechanosensation in fiber networks
Estelle Berthier, Haiqian Yang, Ming Guo +2
In a diversity of physiological contexts, eukaryotic cells adhere to an extracellular matrix (ECM), a disordered network with complex nonlinear mechanics. Such cells can perform me…
Rigidity percolation control of the brittle-ductile transition in disordered networks
Estelle Berthier, Jonathan E. Kollmer, Silke E. Henkes +3
In ordinary solids, material disorder is known to increase the size of the process zone in which stress concentrates at the crack tip, causing a transition from localized to diffus…
Forecasting failure locations in two-dimensional disordered lattices
Estelle Berthier, Mason A. Porter, Karen E. Daniels
Forecasting fracture locations in a progressively failing disordered structure is of paramount importance when considering structural materials. We explore this issue for gradual d…
Elastic interactions in damage models of brittle failure
Vincent Démery, Véronique Dansereau, Estelle Berthier +2
The failure of brittle solids involves, before macroscopic rupture, power-law distributed avalanches of local rupture events whereby microcracks nucleate and grow, which are also o…