Yielding, shear banding, and brittle failure of amorphous materials (2022)
Journal Article
Pollard, J., & Fielding, S. M. (2022). Yielding, shear banding, and brittle failure of amorphous materials. Physical Review Research, 4(4), Article 043037. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.4.043037

Widespread processes in nature and technology are governed by the dynamical transition whereby a material in an initially solid-like state, whether soft or hard, then yields. Major unresolved questions concern whether any material will yield smoothly... Read More about Yielding, shear banding, and brittle failure of amorphous materials.

Intrinsic geometry and director reconstruction for three-dimensional liquid crystals (2021)
Journal Article
Pollard, J., & Alexander, G. P. (2021). Intrinsic geometry and director reconstruction for three-dimensional liquid crystals. New Journal of Physics, 23(6), Article 063006. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/abfdf4

We give a description of the intrinsic geometry of elastic distortions in three-dimensional nematic liquid crystals and establish necessary and sufficient conditions for a set of functions to represent these distortions by describing how they couple... Read More about Intrinsic geometry and director reconstruction for three-dimensional liquid crystals.