Spreading plastic failure as a mechanism for the shear modulus reduction in amorphous solids Vijayakumar Chikkadi, Oleg Gendelman, Valery Ilyin, J. Ashwin, Itamar Procaccia and Carmel A. B. Z. Shor EPL, 110 4 (2015) 48001 Published online: 01 June 2015 DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/110/48001