Thermomechanical Dissipative behaviour of CuZr metallic glasses

Abstract

We performed molecular dynamics simulations of Zr${}_{50}$Cu${}_{50}$ metallic glass samples submitted to mechanical deformation at different strain rates. The simultaneous measurements of the stress-strain curve, and of the temperature evolution during the cyclic mechanical load, are used to determine the thermo-mechanical constitutive laws at the continuum scale. It is shown that plastic deformation acts as a heat source, but strong finite size effects affect the unfolding of shear bands and its related dissipation rate. Finally, a thermo-mechanical constitutive law is proposed to reproduce quantitavely self-heating processes at different scales.

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• Composition effect in the thermo-mechanical behavior of glasses, and its modelization