On the origin of elastic strain limit of bulk metallic glasses

Jun Ding, Y. Q. Cheng, E. Ma

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Abstract

All bulk metallic glasses exhibit a large and almost universal elastic strain limit. Here, we show that the magnitude of the yield strain of the glass state can be quantitatively derived from a characteristic property of the flow state typical in running shear bands (the root cause of yielding). The strain in the shear flow is mostly plastic, but associated with it there is an effective elastic atomic strain. The latter is almost identical for very different model systems in our molecular dynamics simulations, such that the corresponding yield strain is universal at any given homologous temperature.

Original languageEnglish
Article number011912
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume104
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2014

Funding

This work was supported by the US National Science Foundation, Division of Materials Research, under Contract No. NSF-DMR-0904188. Y.Q.C was supported by the Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy. This work was supported by the US National Science Foundation, Division of Materials Research, under Contract No. NSF-DMR-0904188. Y.Q.C was supported by the Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy

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Office of Basic Energy Sciences
Scientific User Facilities Division
US National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy
Division of Materials ResearchNSF-DMR-0904188

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