Local atomic environment and shear banding in metallic glasses

Autor(es)

Tercini, Marcela ^[1] ; de Aguiar Veiga, Roberto Gomes ^[1] ; Zuniga, Alejandro ^[1]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Fed Univ ABC, CECS, Santo Andre, SP - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE; v. 155, p. 129-135, DEC 2018.
• Citações Web of Science: 5

Resumo

In this work we studied the compression behavior of a Cu45Zr45Al10 metallic glass and the relationship between the local atomic environment and shear banding using molecular dynamics. The Cu45Zr45Al10 metallic glass was first produced using the quenching technique and then deformed in compression for up to 20% at a strain rate of 10(8) s(-1). Both the compression stress-strain curve and analysis of the local shear strain show that shear banding is initiated at approximately 5%, while Voronoi analyses indicate that the most significant structural change as a function of compression strain is a decrease in the amount of Cu-centered < 0, 0, 12, 0, 0 > icosahedra. Additionally, we propose a novel quantitative tool for characterizing the local atomic environment in the metallic glass: the local density of atoms that satisfy a given condition. By using this tool for three different conditions we observed a strong spatial correlation between shear banding and the distribution of distorted Cu-centered < 0, 0, 12, 0, 0 > icosahedra. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 14/10294-4 - Modelagem computacional multiescala da evolução microestrutural e da plasticidade em ligas metálicas
• Beneficiário: Roberto Gomes de Aguiar Veiga
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Jovens Pesquisadores