@article{608395f663c741278926e872da395706,
title = "Why the Crackling Deformations of Single Crystals, Metallic Glasses, Rock, Granular Materials, and the Earth's Crust Are So Surprisingly Similar",
abstract = "Recent experiments show that the deformation properties of a wide range of solid materials are surprisingly similar. When slowly pushed, they deform via intermittent slips, similar to earthquakes. The statistics of these slips agree across vastly different structures and scales. A simple analytical model explains why this is the case. The model also predicts which statistical quantities are independent of the microscopic details (i.e., they are “universal”), and which ones are not. The model provides physical intuition for the deformation mechanism and new ways to organize experimental data. It also shows how to transfer results from one scale to another. The model predictions agree with experiments. The results are expected to be relevant for failure prediction, hazard prevention, and the design of next-generation materials.",
keywords = "avalanches, critical point, deformation, mean field, metallic glass, scaling, shear bands, universality",
author = "Dahmen, {Karin A.} and Uhl, {Jonathan T.} and Wright, {Wendelin J.}",
note = "Funding Information: KD gratefully acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) DMR 10-05209, NSF CBET 13-36634, PHY11-25915, MGA, and the Aspen Center for Physics. WW thanks NSF DMR 1042734 and the Heinemann Family Professorship at Bucknell University. KD and WW Funding Information: Many people have contributed to this perspective; we especially thank the scientists who kindly shared their experimental and observational data with us: Thorsten Becker, Robert Behringer, Rachel Byer, Dmitry Denisov, Georg Dresen, Thomas Goebel, Julia Greer, Xiaojun Gu, Todd Hufnagel, Andrew Jennings, Ju-Young Kim, Peter Liaw, K. A. L?rincz, Robert Maa?, Junwei Qiao, Steven Robare, Peter Schall, Danijel Schorlemmer, Molei Tao, Katherine Van Ness, Xie Xie, Jien-Wei Yeh, Yong Zhang, and Jien-Min Zuo, and the students who analyzed the data and compared them to model predictions, including James Antonaglia, Braden Brinkman, Nir Friedman, Michael LeBlanc, Xin Liu, Yun Liu, Aya Nawano, Shivesh Pathak, Ryan Swindeman, Gregory Schwarz, Li Shu, Georgios Tsekenis, and Matthew Wraith. We also thank Jim Wolfe for very helpful comments. Funding. KD gratefully acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) DMR 10-05209, NSF CBET 13-36634, PHY11-25915, MGA, and the Aspen Center for Physics. WW thanks NSF DMR 1042734 and the Heinemann Family Professorship at Bucknell University. KD and WW thank the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) (NSF PHY17-48958). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Copyright {\textcopyright} 2019 Dahmen, Uhl and Wright.",
year = "2019",
month = nov,
day = "7",
doi = "10.3389/fphy.2019.00176",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "7",
journal = "Frontiers in Physics",
issn = "2296-424X",
publisher = "Frontiers Media S. A.",
}