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The upper panel shows a uniform strain field acting on the glass sample in its original state. A fluidized region allows the surrounding material to elastically deform in a nonuniform way in the imposed stress field shown schematically in the lower panel. This allows additional strain energy to be released without costing any additional mismatch energy.
