Tuned critical avalanche scaling in bulk metallic glasses

Antonaglia, James; Xie, Xie; Schwarz, Gregory; Wraith, Matthew; Qiao, Junwei; Zhang, Yong; Liaw, Peter K.; Uhl, Jonathan T.; Dahmen, Karin A.

doi:10.1038/srep04382

Title: Tuned critical avalanche scaling in bulk metallic glasses

Journal Article · Mon Mar 17 00:00:00 EDT 2014 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/srep04382· OSTI ID:1224526

Antonaglia, James ^[1]; Xie, Xie ^[2]; Schwarz, Gregory ^[1]; Wraith, Matthew ^[1]; Qiao, Junwei ^[3]; Zhang, Yong ^[4]; Liaw, Peter K. ^[2]; Uhl, Jonathan T. ^[1]; Dahmen, Karin A. ^[1]

Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Taiyuan Univ. of Technology, Taiyuan (China)
Univ. of Science and Technology, Beijing (China)

In this study, ingots of the bulk metallic glass (BMG), Zr_64.13Cu_15.75Ni_10.12Al₁₀ in atomic percent (at. %), are compressed at slow strain rates. The deformation behavior is characterized by discrete, jerky stress-drop bursts (serrations). Here we present a quantitative theory for the serration behavior of BMGs, which is a critical issue for the understanding of the deformation characteristics of BMGs. The mean-field interaction model predicts the scaling behavior of the distribution, D(S), of avalanche sizes, S, in the experiments. D(S) follows a power law multiplied by an exponentially-decaying scaling function. The size of the largest observed avalanche depends on experimental tuning-parameters, such as either imposed strain rate or stress. Similar to crystalline materials, the plasticity of BMGs reflects tuned criticality showing remarkable quantitative agreement with the slip statistics of slowly-compressed nanocrystals. The results imply that material-evaluation methods based on slip statistics apply to both crystalline and BMG materials.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)

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OSTI ID:: 1224526

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Vol. 4; ISSN 2045-2322

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