Shear bands as bottlenecks in force transmission Antoinette Tordesillas, Sebastian Pucilowski, Steven Tobin, Matthew R. Kuhn, Edward Andò, Gioacchino Viggiani, Andrew Druckrey and Khalid Alshibli EPL, 110 5 (2015) 58005 Published online: 29 June 2015 DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/110/58005