Fig. 1.

(Left) Analogy between the yielding transition of a d-dimensional amorphous solid and the depinning transition of an elastic interface of d dimensions in a space of d + 1 dimensions, illustrated here for d = 2. The height of the interface is the accumulated local plastic strain generated by local plastic rearrangements; one example of the latter appears in the bottom. (Right) the strain rate–stress (velocity–force) curves for the yielding (depinning) transition with β > 1 (β < 1) in yielding (depinning) transition.