Stress-driven crystallization via shear-diffusion transformations in a metallic glass at very low temperatures
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Mao, Yunwei; Li, Ju; Lo, Yu-Chieh; Qian, Xiaofeng; Ma, Evan
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At elevated temperatures, glasses crystallize via thermally activated diffusion. However, metallic glasses can also undergo deformation-induced crystallization at very low temperatures. Here we demonstrate the crystallization of Al[subscript 50]Fe[subscript 50] metallic glasses under cyclic deformation at 50 K using molecular dynamics simulations and reveal the underlying atomic-scale processes. We demonstrate that stress-driven nonaffine atomic rearrangements, or shear diffusion transformation (SDT) events, lead to successive metabasin-to-metabasin transitions and long-range ordering. We also illustrate that the nucleation and growth of the crystal proceed via collective attachment of ordered clusters, advancing the amorphous/crystal interface in an intermittent manner. The cooperative nature of the steplike crystallization is attributed to the large activation volume of Eshelby transformations which generate as a by-product nonaffine diffusive atomic displacements that accumulate over loading cycles. The dual nature of shear (affine) and diffusion (nonaffine) in low-temperature stress-driven SDT events thus unifies inelasticity with crystallization.
Date issued
2015-06Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and EngineeringJournal
Physical Review B
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Mao, Yunwei, Ju Li, Yu-Chieh Lo, Xiaofeng Qian, and Evan Ma. “Stress-Driven Crystallization via Shear-Diffusion Transformations in a Metallic Glass at Very Low Temperatures.” Phys. Rev. B 91, no. 21 (June 2015). © 2015 American Physical Society
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1098-0121
1550-235X