Effect of the interparticle potential on the yield stress of amorphous solids.

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys

Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.

Published: April 2011

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A crucially important material parameter for all amorphous solids is the yield stress, which is the value of the stress for which the material yields to plastic flow when it is strained quasistatically at zero temperature. It is difficult in laboratory experiments to determine what parameters of the interparticle potential affect the value of the yield stress. Here we use the versatility of numerical simulations to study the dependence of the yield stress on the parameters of the interparticle potential. We find a very simple dependence on the fundamental scales that characterize the repulsive and attractive parts of the potential, respectively, and offer a scaling theory that collapses the data for widely different potentials and in different space dimensions.

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