Séminaire du LPTMS: Elisabeth Agoritsas

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26/01/2016    
11:00 - 12:00

LPTMS, salle 201, 2ème étage, Bât 100, Campus d'Orsay
15 Rue Georges Clemenceau, Orsay, 91405

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Revisiting mean-field elasto-plastic models at the mesoscopic scale

Elisabeth Agoritsas (Université Grenoble-Alpes)

Encompassing very dissimilar systems (such as foams, emulsions, or granular materials), amorphous materials are composed of constituents of different shapes and sizes, such as bubbles in a soap foam or sand grains in a sandpile, so that they exhibit a structural disorder that plays a determinant role in their mechanical properties, while challenging their very description. Several elasto-plastic models have been developed at the mesoscopic scale, in order to account for the plasticity in sheared amorphous materials, such as the Hébraud- Lequeux (HL) model [P. Hébraud & F. Lequeux, Phys.Rev.Lett. 81, 2934 (1998)]. They have proven to be rather successful in reproducing certain features observed in amorphous systems, but not all at once. Moreover, a consistent picture connecting them is still missing. Here we discuss the physical ingredients that are put in such mean-field models, distinguishing between thermal and mechanical noises in the mean-field dynamics of amorphous materials. We focus in particular on the role of structural disorder, implemented by means of a distribution of energy barriers for the system to overcome locally when an external constant shear rate is applied to the material, and discuss specifically its implications for a generalization of the HL model [E. Agoritsas et al., Eur.Phys.J.E 38, 71 (2015)].

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