Jamming, Yielding, and Irreversible Deformation in Condensed Matter

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Miguel, M. Carmen (Editor), Rubi, Miguel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag, 2006.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 688
• Subjects: Physics.; Continuum physics.; Condensed matter.; Materials science.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Classical Continuum Physics.; Materials Science, general.

This collection ot ten tutorial reviews by leading researchers in the field introduces and renews recent advances on irreversible deformation phenomena in solid state and soft condensed matter physics. The focus in applications is on amorphous materials, crystalline solids under stress and more gene...

Table of Contents:

• Yielding and Jamming of Dense Suspensions
• Thermal Noise Properties of Two Aging Materials
• Jamming in Dense Granular Media
• Rheological Aspects of the Solid-Liquid Transition in Jammed Systems
• Dynamics of Disordered Elastic Systems
• Edge Contamination Effects in the Dynamics of Vortex Matter in Superconductors: Memory Effects and Excess Flux-flow Noise
• Out-of-equilibrium Relaxation of a Time-dependent Effective Temperature
• Depinning and Plasticity of Driven Disordered Lattices
• Mixing, Ergodicity and the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem in Complex Systems
• Jamming and Yielding of Dislocations: from Crystal Plasticity to Superconducting Vortex Flow.