Intrinsic dissipation mechanisms in metallic glass resonators.

Micro- and nanoresonators have important applications including sensing, navigation, and biochemical detection. Their performance is quantified using the quality factor Q, which gives the ratio of the energy stored to the energy dissipated per cycle. Metallic glasses are a promising material class for micro- and nanoscale resonators since they are amorphous and can be fabricated precisely into complex shapes on these length scales.

Universal slip dynamics in metallic glasses and granular matter - linking frictional weakening with inertial effects.

Slowly strained solids deform via intermittent slips that exhibit a material-independent critical size distribution. Here, by comparing two disparate systems - granular materials and bulk metallic glasses - we show evidence that not only the statistics of slips but also their dynamics are remarkably similar, i.e.

Avalanche statistics from data with low time resolution.

Extracting avalanche distributions from experimental microplasticity data can be hampered by limited time resolution. We compute the effects of low time resolution on avalanche size distributions and give quantitative criteria for diagnosing and circumventing problems associated with low time resolution. We show that traditional analysis of data obtained at low acquisition rates can lead to avalanche size distributions with incorrect power-law exponents or no power-law scaling at all.