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中国物理学会期刊

软硬相序构金属玻璃中的剪切带行为

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.74.20250845

Shear banding behavior in soft-hard phase ordered metallic glasses

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.74.20250845
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  • 金属玻璃(MGs)的剪切带行为与其微观结构不均匀性密切相关. 传统分子动力学(MD)模拟因超快冷却速率导致MGs结构保留了更多液体特征, 而交换原子的蒙特卡罗(SMC)方法能够在模拟上制备出可匹配实验室时间冷却速度的低能态金属玻璃. 本文通过SMC结合MD方法, 构建软硬相分布可控的Cu50Zr50金属玻璃样品, 揭示纳米尺度结构不均匀性对剪切带萌生与扩展的调控机制. 由MD制备的软相中二十面体有序团簇含量较少, 优先激活塑性事件, 促进应力重新分布, 与邻近硬相一起响应对剪切带扩展起协同作用. MC制备的硬相区由于其高密度的二十面体团簇的含量, 使得应力局域集中, 形成窄剪切带. 通过调控硬相体积分数, 复合样品发生由韧到脆转变. 此外, 在保持硬相百分比不变的前提下, 不同序构策略可以改变非晶的力学行为: 离散硬相的分布能够增加样品的稳定性, 推迟剪切带的产生; 硬相包围软相的策略能够促进样品中产生二次剪切带, 使得剪切带区域相对非局域化. 该研究结果揭示了软硬区结构不均匀性对非晶合金力学性能的影响, 为采用序构方法设计金属玻璃力学性能提供了可能的理论指导.

     

    Shear banding behavior of metallic glasses (MGs) strongly correlates with the microstructural heterogeneity. Understanding how the nucleation and propagation of shear bands are governed by the nanoscale structural heterogeneity is crucial for designing high-performance MGs. Herein, the traditional molecular dynamics (MD) and swap Monte Carlo (SMC) simulations are used to construct two phases of CuZr metallic glasses: the soft phase with a high cooling rate about 1013 K/s, and the hard phase with a extremely low cooling rate in simulations about 104 K/s. The soft phase contains fewer icosahedral clusters, allowing for easier plastic deformation; the hard phase has more of icosahedral clusters, which promotes shear localization once shear bands form inside. A ductile-to-brittle transition is found to occur in the soft-and-hard phase ordered MGs with the increase of the hard-region fraction c. Additionally, the strategy for ordering these two phases to strongly influence the mechanical behavior of MGs is proposed. Dispersed and isolated hard-regions can improve the mechanical stability of MGs and delay the occurrence of shear banding. Instead, the soft regions surrounded by hard regions can induce a secondary shear band that is formed through the reorientation of plastic zones under constrained deformation, leading to more delocalized plastic deformation zones. This work reveals that the structural heterogeneity achieved by adjusting the topology of soft and hard phases can significantly change the mechanical performance of MGs, which can guide the design of metallic glasses with controllable structures through architectural ordering strategies.

     

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