Serration and noise behaviors in materials

Serration and noise behaviors in plastically deforming solids are related to avalanches of deformation processes. In the stress-strain curves, the serration characteristics are visible as stress drops or strain jumps. In fact, similar serration characteristics are ubiquitous in many structural and functional materials, such as amorphous materials [also metallic glasses, or bulk metallic glasses (BMGs)], high-entropy alloys (HEAs), superalloys,...