Glass Dynamics at High Strain Rates

Details Glass Dynamics at High Strain Rates Glass Dynamics at High Strain Rates

2012-03-09

arxiv.org/abs/1203.1965v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

8 pages, 6 figures

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We present a shear-transformation-zone (STZ) theoretical analysis of molecular-dynamics simulations of a rapidly sheared metallic glass. These simulations are especially revealing because, although they are limited to high strain rates, they span temperatures ranging from well below to well above the glass transition. With one important discrepancy, the STZ theory reproduces the simulation data, including the way in which those data can be made to collapse onto simple curves by a scaling transformation. The STZ analysis implies that the system's behavior at high strain rates is controlled primarily by effective-temperature thermodynamics, as opposed to system-specific details of the molecular interactions. The discrepancy between theory and simulations occurs at the lower strain rates for temperatures near the glass transition. We argue that this discrepancy can be resolved by the same multi-species generalization of STZ theory that has been proposed recently for understanding frequency-dependent viscoelastic responses, Stokes-Einstein violations, and stretched-exponential relaxation in equilibrated glassy materials.

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