2 papers
cond-mat.soft2015
Nonmonotonic fracture behavior of polymer nanocomposites
Janaina G. de Castro, Rojman Zargar, Mehdi Habibi +5
Polymer composite materials are widely used for their exceptional mechanical properties, notably their ability to resist large deformations. Here we examine the failure stress and…
cond-mat.soft2015
Free energy of sheared colloidal glasses
M. T. Dang, V. Chikkadi, R. Zargar +4
We develop a free energy framework to describe the response of glasses to applied stress. Unlike crystals, for which the free energy increases quadratically with strain due to affi…