Shear banding leads to accelerated aging dynamics in a metallic glass

Küchemann, Stefan; Liu, Chaoyang; Dufresne, Eric M.; Shin, Jeremy; Maaß, Robert

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.97.014204

Shear banding leads to accelerated aging dynamics in a metallic glass

Journal Article · Wed Jan 10 23:00:00 EST 2018 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.014204· OSTI ID:1422552

Küchemann, Stefan ^[1]; Liu, Chaoyang ^[1]; Dufresne, Eric M. ^[2]; Shin, Jeremy ^[1]; Maaß, Robert ^[1]

Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States). Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Frederick-Seitz Materials Research Laboratory
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)

Traditionally, strain localization in metallic glasses is related to the thickness of the shear defect, which is confined to the nanometer scale. In this study, using site-specific x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS), we reveal significantly accelerated relaxation dynamics around a shear band in a metallic glass at a length scale that is orders of magnitude larger than the defect itself. The relaxation time in the shear-band vicinity is up to ten-times smaller compared to the as-cast matrix, and the relaxation dynamics occurs in a characteristic three-stage aging response that manifests itself in the temperature-dependent shape parameter known from classical stretched exponential relaxation dynamics of disordered materials. We demonstrate that the time-dependent correlation functions describing the aging at different temperatures can be captured and collapsed using simple scaling functions. Finally, these insights highlight how an ubiquitous nano-scale strain-localization mechanism in metallic glasses leads to a fundamental change of the relaxation dynamics at the mesoscale.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1422552

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Journal Name: Physical Review B Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 97; ISSN 2469-9950; ISSN PRBMDO

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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