Potential energy landscape activations governing plastic flows in glass rheology
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Author(s)
Cao, Penghui
Short, Michael P
Yip, Sidney
Date Issued
September 2019
Journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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National Academy of Sciences
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Cao, Penghui, et al. “Potential Energy Landscape Activations Governing Plastic Flows in Glass Rheology.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, 38 (September 2019): 18790–97. © 2019 National Academy of Sciences
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Abstract
While glasses are ubiquitous in natural and manufactured materials, the atomic-level mechanisms governing their deformation and how these mechanisms relate to rheological behavior are still open questions for fundamental understanding. Using atomistic simulations spanning nearly 10 orders of magnitude in the applied strain rate we probe the atomic rearrangements associated with 3 characteristic regimes of homogeneous and heterogeneous shear flow. In the low and high strain-rate limits, simulation results together with theoretical models reveal distinct scaling behavior in flow stress variation with strain rate, signifying a nonlinear coupling between thermally activated diffusion and stress-driven motion. Moreover, we find the emergence of flow heterogeneity is closely correlated with extreme values of local strain bursts that are not readily accommodated by immediate surroundings, acting as origins of shear localization. The atomistic mechanisms underlying the flow regimes are interpreted by analyzing a distance matrix of nonaffine particle displacements, yielding evidence of various barrier-hopping processes on a fractal potential energy landscape (PEL) in which shear transformations and liquid-like regions are triggered by the interplay of thermal and stress activations. Keywords: metallic glass; mechanism; atomistic modeling; rheology
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.1073/PNAS.1907317116
