Material Comparisons: Nanocrystals to Tectonic Plates (IMAGE)

University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering

Material Comparisons: Nanocrystals to Tectonic Plates

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When solid materials such as nanocrystals, bulk metallic glasses, rocks, or granular materials are slowly deformed by compression or shear, they slip intermittently with slip-avalanches similar to earthquakes.

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