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Loading-rate-independent delay of catastrophic avalanches in a bulk metallic glass

The plastic flow of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) is characterized by intermittent bursts of avalanches, and this trend results in disastrous failures of BMGs. In the present work, a double-side-notched BMG specimen is designed, which exhibits chaotic plastic flows consisting of several catastrophic...

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Autores principales: Chen, S. H., Chan, K. C., Wang, G., Wu, F. F., Xia, L., Ren, J. L., Li, J., Dahmen, K. A., Liaw, P. K.
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4766412/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26912191
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep21967
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author Chen, S. H.
Chan, K. C.
Wang, G.
Wu, F. F.
Xia, L.
Ren, J. L.
Li, J.
Dahmen, K. A.
Liaw, P. K.
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Chan, K. C.
Wang, G.
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Xia, L.
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description The plastic flow of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) is characterized by intermittent bursts of avalanches, and this trend results in disastrous failures of BMGs. In the present work, a double-side-notched BMG specimen is designed, which exhibits chaotic plastic flows consisting of several catastrophic avalanches under the applied loading. The disastrous shear avalanches have, then, been delayed by forming a stable plastic-flow stage in the specimens with tailored distances between the bottoms of the notches, where the distribution of a complex stress field is acquired. Differing from the conventional compressive testing results, such a delaying process is independent of loading rate. The statistical analysis shows that in the specimens with delayed catastrophic failures, the plastic flow can evolve to a critical dynamics, making the catastrophic failure more predictable than the ones with chaotic plastic flows. The findings are of significance in understanding the plastic-flow mechanisms in BMGs and controlling the avalanches in relating solids.
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spelling pubmed-47664122016-03-02 Loading-rate-independent delay of catastrophic avalanches in a bulk metallic glass Chen, S. H. Chan, K. C. Wang, G. Wu, F. F. Xia, L. Ren, J. L. Li, J. Dahmen, K. A. Liaw, P. K. Sci Rep Article The plastic flow of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) is characterized by intermittent bursts of avalanches, and this trend results in disastrous failures of BMGs. In the present work, a double-side-notched BMG specimen is designed, which exhibits chaotic plastic flows consisting of several catastrophic avalanches under the applied loading. The disastrous shear avalanches have, then, been delayed by forming a stable plastic-flow stage in the specimens with tailored distances between the bottoms of the notches, where the distribution of a complex stress field is acquired. Differing from the conventional compressive testing results, such a delaying process is independent of loading rate. The statistical analysis shows that in the specimens with delayed catastrophic failures, the plastic flow can evolve to a critical dynamics, making the catastrophic failure more predictable than the ones with chaotic plastic flows. The findings are of significance in understanding the plastic-flow mechanisms in BMGs and controlling the avalanches in relating solids. Nature Publishing Group 2016-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4766412/ /pubmed/26912191 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep21967 Text en Copyright © 2016, Macmillan Publishers Limited http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Liaw, P. K.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26912191
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep21967
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