7 papers
Self-induced marginality in plastically deformed crystals
Oguz Umut Salman, Aylin Ahadi, Lev Truskinovsky
Quasi-brittle plastic yielding is a salient feature of well-annealed glassy materials. Here we show that the same behavior is characteristic of perfect crystals after they experien…
Active chemo-mechanical solitons
Lev Truskinovsky, Giuseppe Zurlo
In many biological systems localized mechanical information is transmitted by mechanically neutral chemical signals. Typical examples include contraction waves in acto-myosin corte…
Micro-displacement tensor
Giuseppe Zurlo, Lev Truskinovsky
We propose an extended kinematics of nominally elastic continuum solids allowing one to describe their mechanical interaction with micro-scale loading devices. The main new ingredi…
Inertia-induced power-law scaling in martensites
OÄuz Umut Salman, Alphonse Finel, Lev Truskinovsky
Martensites subjected to quasistatic deformation are known to exhibit power law distributed acoustic emission in a broad range of scales, however, the origin of the observed scalin…
Slip-dominated structural transitions
Kanka Ghosh, Oguz Umut Salman, Sylvain Queyreau +1
We use molecular dynamics to show that plastic slip is a crucial component of the transformation mechanism of a square-to-triangular structural transition. The latter is a stylized…
Active drive towards elastic spinodals
Ayan Roychowdhury, Madan Rao, Lev Truskinovsky
Active matter, exemplified by adaptive living materials such as the actomyosin cytoskeleton, can navigate material parameter space dynamically, leading to unconventional mechanical…