Mechanical glass transition revealed by the fracture toughness of metallic glasses

Ketkaew, Jittisa; Chen, Wen; Wang, Hui; Datye, Amit; Fan, Meng; Pereira, Gabriela; Schwarz, Udo D.; Liu, Ze; Yamada, Rui; Dmowski, Wojciech; Shattuck, Mark D.; O’Hern, Corey S.; Egami, Takeshi; Bouchbinder, Eran; Schroers, Jan

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05682-8

Title: Mechanical glass transition revealed by the fracture toughness of metallic glasses

Journal Article · 16 August 2018 · Nature Communications

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05682-8 · OSTI ID:1463919

Ketkaew, Jittisa; Chen, Wen; Wang, Hui;

; Fan, Meng; Pereira, Gabriela; Schwarz, Udo D.; Liu, Ze; Yamada, Rui; Dmowski, Wojciech; Shattuck, Mark D.;

; Egami, Takeshi;

; Schroers, Jan

Abstract The fracture toughness of glassy materials remains poorly understood. In large part, this is due to the disordered, intrinsically non-equilibrium nature of the glass structure, which challenges its theoretical description and experimental determination. We show that the notch fracture toughness of metallic glasses exhibits an abrupt toughening transition as a function of a well-controlled fictive temperature ( T _f ), which characterizes the average glass structure. The ordinary temperature, which has been previously associated with a ductile-to-brittle transition, is shown to play a secondary role. The observed transition is interpreted to result from a competition between the T _f -dependent plastic relaxation rate and an applied strain rate. Consequently, a similar toughening transition as a function of strain rate is predicted and demonstrated experimentally. The observed mechanical toughening transition bears strong similarities to the ordinary glass transition and explains the previously reported large scatter in fracture toughness data and ductile-to-brittle transitions.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

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

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; AC05-00OR22725; SC0004889; SC0016179

OSTI ID:: 1463919

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 9; ISSN 2041-1723

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United Kingdom

Language:: English

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