A study of the static yield stress in a binary Lennard-Jones glass

Details A study of the static yield stress in a binary Lennard-Jones glass A study of the static yield stress in a binary Lennard-Jones glass

2003-09-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0309089v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

14 pages, 18 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1636451

The stress-strain relations and the yield behavior of model glass (a 80:20 binary Lennard-Jones mixture) is studied by means of MD simulations. First, a thorough analysis of the static yield stress is presented via simulations under imposed stress. Furthermore, using steady shear simulations, the effect of physical aging, shear rate and temperature on the stress-strain relation is investigated. In particular, we find that the stress at the yield point (the ``peak''-value of the stress-strain curve) exhibits a logarithmic dependence both on the imposed shear rate and on the ``age'' of the system in qualitative agreement with experiments on amorphous polymers and on metallic glasses. In addition to the very observation of the yield stress which is an important feature seen in experiments on complex systems like pastes, dense colloidal suspensions and foams, further links between our model and soft glassy materials are found. An example are hysteresis loops in the system response to a varying imposed stress. Finally, we measure the static yield stress for our model and study its dependence on temperature. We find that for temperatures far below the mode coupling critical temperature of the model ($Tc = 0.435$), $\sigmay$ decreases slowly upon heating followed by a stronger decrease as $\Tc$ is approached. We discuss the reliability of results on the static yield stress and give a criterion for its validity in terms of the time scales relevant to the problem.

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