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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 799, Issue -, Pages 450-461Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.05.195
Keywords
Metallic glasses; Structural defects; Bond breaking; Local atomic structure; Molecular dynamics simulations
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- Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China [PolyU152607/16E]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51701135, 51571132, 51574176, 51874209]
- Major Research & Development Plan of Shanxi Province (International Cooperation project) [201603D421028]
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Bond breaking related with plastic deformation in a deformed metallic glass Zr50Cu50 is investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. The results show that the spatial distributions of broken bonds are closely correlated with local shear strains, and the clustering behaviors of atoms with broken bonds (flow defects) are characterized with different stages of plastic deformation. The average distance among those clusters of flow defects decreases as the strains increase, which follows the curvature quadrupole model for flow defects in ideal amorphous solids. For the first time, the features of bond breaking processes are quantitatively measured with the chemical composition, bond length and orientation, bond pairs, local five-fold symmetry and quasi-nearest atoms, whose threshold values are important factors that could characterize the flow defects in metallic glasses under plastic deformation. The shape, orientation and energetics of flow defects quantitatively characterized by the bond breaking analysis thus facilitate our understanding on the deformation mechanisms in metallic glasses. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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