3 papers
cond-mat.soft2021
Prestressed elasticity of amorphous solids
Shang Zhang, Ethan Stanifer, Vishwas Vasisht +3
Prestress in amorphous solids bears the memory of their formation, and plays a profound role in their mechanical properties, from stiffening or softening elastic moduli to shifting…
cond-mat.soft2020
Correlated rigidity percolation in fractal lattices
Shae Machlus, Shang Zhang, Xiaoming Mao
Rigidity percolation (RP) is the emergence of mechanical stability in networks. Motivated by the experimentally observed fractal nature of materials like colloidal gels and disorde…
cond-mat.soft2018
Correlated rigidity percolation and colloidal gels
Shang Zhang, Leyou Zhang, Mehdi Bouzid +3
Rigidity percolation (RP) occurs when mechanical stability emerges in disordered networks as constraints or components are added. Here we discuss RP with structural correlations, a…