Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2004-09-23
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Scientific paper
We study Mode I crack propagation in amorphous material via a molecular dynamics simulation of a binary alloy with pairwise central-force interactions. We find that when the system is subjected to constant displacement after introduction of a seed crack, the crack does not propagate. This was found to be true both for the modified Lennard-Jones potential of Falk and a shorter-range potential of our own devising. Crystalline samples prepared with these potentials exhibit normal brittle fracture, with running cracks. Only when subjected to a constantly increasing strain did the crack in the glasses lengthen. Even here, once the strain stopped increasing, the crack tip stopped moving. We examined the stress-strain curve for our model materials, and found that they did not exhibit the saturated stress plateau characteristic of ductile materials. We attribute the failure of crack propagation in this system to the availability of many meta-stable configurations available to the crack tip which serve to soak up the energy which would otherwise drive the crack. We conclude that this class of models is inadequate to describe crack propagation in brittle glasses.
Hirsh Tsviki Y.
Kessler David A.
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