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Crack (Non)Propagation in Amorphous Media
Tsviki Y. Hirsh, David A. Kessler
We study Mode I crack propagation in amorphous material via a molecular dynamics simulation of a binary alloy with pairwise central-force interactions. We find that when the system…
Fluctuation-regularized Front Propagation Dynamics
Elisheva Cohen, David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine
We introduce and study a new class of fronts in finite particle number reaction-diffusion systems, corresponding to propagating up a reaction rate gradient. We show that these syst…
Velocity Fluctuations in Dynamical Fracture: the Role of Microcracks
E. Bouchbinder, D. Kessler, I. Procaccia
We address the velocity fluctuations of fastly moving cracks in stressed materials. One possible mechanism for such fluctuations is the interaction of the main crack with micro cra…
Fluctuating Filaments Under Tension - From Flexible Chains to Rigid Rods
David A. Kessler, Yitzhak Rabin
We develop a novel biased Monte-Carlo simulation technique to measure the force-extension curves and the distribution function of the extension of fluctuating filaments stretched b…
Equilibrium state of molecular breeding
Elisheva Cohen, David A. Kessler
We investigate the equilibrium state of the model of Peng, \textit{et al.} for molecular breeding. In the model, a population of DNA sequences is successively culled by removing th…
Non-native beta-sheet formation: insights into protein amyloidosis
Chinlin Guo, Herbert Levine, David A. Kessler
Protein amyloidosis is a cytopathological process characterized by the formation of highly beta-sheet-rich fibrils. How this process occurs and how to prevent/treat the associated…