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Aging in a mean field elastoplastic model of amorphous solids

Parley, Jack T.; Fielding, Suzanne M.; Sollich, Peter

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Jack T. Parley

Peter Sollich



Abstract

We construct a mean-field elastoplastic description of the dynamics of amorphous solids under arbitrary time-dependent perturbations, building on the work of Lin and Wyart [Phys. Rev. X 6, 011005 (2016)] for steady shear. Local stresses are driven by power-law distributed mechanical noise from yield events throughout the material, in contrast to the well-studied Hébraud–Lequeux model where the noise is Gaussian. We first use a mapping to a mean first passage time problem to study the phase diagram in the absence of shear, which shows a transition between an arrested and a fluid state. We then introduce a boundary layer scaling technique for low yield rate regimes, which we first apply to study the scaling of the steady state yield rate on approaching the arrest transition. These scalings are further developed to study the aging behavior in the glassy regime for different values of the exponent μ characterizing the mechanical noise spectrum. We find that the yield rate decays as a power-law for 1 < μ < 2, a stretched exponential for μ = 1, and an exponential for μ < 1, reflecting the relative importance of far-field and near-field events as the range of the stress propagator is varied. A comparison of the mean-field predictions with aging simulations of a lattice elastoplastic model shows excellent quantitative agreement, up to a simple rescaling of time.

Citation

Parley, J. T., Fielding, S. M., & Sollich, P. (2020). Aging in a mean field elastoplastic model of amorphous solids. Physics of Fluids, 32(12), Article 127104. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0033196

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 13, 2020
Online Publication Date Nov 4, 2020
Publication Date 2020
Deposit Date Aug 9, 2022
Publicly Available Date Aug 9, 2022
Journal Physics of Fluids
Print ISSN 1070-6631
Electronic ISSN 1089-7666
Publisher American Institute of Physics
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 32
Issue 12
Article Number 127104
DOI https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0033196
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1194738

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© 2020 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Parley, Jack T., Fielding, Suzanne M. & Sollich, Peter (2020). Aging in a mean field elastoplastic model of amorphous solids. Physics of Fluids 32(12): 127104 and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0033196






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