Shear banding instability in multicomponent metallic glasses: Interplay of composition and short-range order
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2022-03-28
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Department of Applied Physics
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Physical Review B, Volume 105, issue 9
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The shear-banding instability in quasistatically driven bulk metallic glasses emerges from collective dynamics, mediated by shear transformation zones and associated nonlocal elastic interactions. It is also phenomenologically known that sharp structural features of shear bands are typically correlated to the sharpness of the plastic yielding transition, being predominant in commonly studied alloys composed of multiple different elements, that have very different atomic radii. However, in the opposite limit where elements' radii are relatively similar, plastic yielding of bulk metallic glasses is highly dependent on compositional and ordering features. In particular, a known mechanism at play involves the formation of short-range order dominated by icosahedra-based clusters. Here, we report on atomistic simulations of multicomponent metallic glasses with different chemical compositions showing that the degree of strain localization is largely controlled by the interplay between composition-driven icosahedra-ordering and collectively-driven shear transformation zones. By altering compositions, strain localization ranges from diffuse homogenized patterns to singular crack-like features. We quantify the dynamical yielding transition by measuring the atoms' susceptibility to plastic rearrangements, strongly correlated to the local atomic structure. We find that the abundance of short-range ordering of icosahedra within rearranging zones increases glassy materials' capacity to delocalize strain. This could be understood on the basis of structural heterogeneities that are enhanced by the presence of local order. The kind of plastic yielding can be often qualitatively inferred by the commonly used compositional descriptor that characterizes element associations, the misfit parameter da, and also by uncommon ones, such as shear-band width and shear-band dynamics' correlation parameters.Description
| openaire: EC/H2020/857470/EU//NOMATEN Funding Information: This research was funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant Agreement No. 857470 and from the European Regional Development Fund via Foundation for Polish Science International Research Agenda PLUS Program Grant No. MAB PLUS/2018/8. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 American Physical Society.
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Karimi, K, Esfandiarpour, A, Alvarez-Donado, R, Alava, M J & Papanikolaou, S 2022, ' Shear banding instability in multicomponent metallic glasses : Interplay of composition and short-range order ', Physical Review B, vol. 105, no. 9, 094117, pp. 1-12 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.105.094117