Shear Band Formation (VIDEO)

University of Pennsylvania

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Applying stress to their micropillars, the researchers found the point where fundamental event that leads to shear-banding becomes very favorable. They demonstrated that this point is roughly the same in atomic systems, polymer glasses, and in these micropillars.

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