Topological characterization of rearrangements in amorphous solids

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Hauptverfasser: Desmarchelier, Paul, Fajardo, Spencer, Falk, Michael L.
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author Desmarchelier, Paul
Fajardo, Spencer
Falk, Michael L.
author_facet Desmarchelier, Paul
Fajardo, Spencer
Falk, Michael L.
contents In amorphous materials, plasticity is localized and occurs as shear transformations. It was recently shown by Wu et al. that these shear transformations can be predicted by applying topological defect concepts developed for liquid crystals to an analysis of vibrational eigenmodes [Wu et al.; Nat. Com.,2023]. This study relates the -1 topological defects to the displacement fields expected of an Eshelby inclusion, which are characterized by an orientation and the magnitude of the eigenstrain. A corresponding orientation and magnitude can be defined for each defect using the local displacement field around each defect. These parameters characterize the plastic stress relaxation associated with the local structural rearrangement and can be extracted using the fit to either the global displacement field or the local field. Both methods provide a reasonable estimation of the MD-measured stress drop, confirming the localized nature of the displacements that control both long-range deformation and stress relaxation.
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spellingShingle Topological characterization of rearrangements in amorphous solids
Desmarchelier, Paul
Fajardo, Spencer
Falk, Michael L.
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
In amorphous materials, plasticity is localized and occurs as shear transformations. It was recently shown by Wu et al. that these shear transformations can be predicted by applying topological defect concepts developed for liquid crystals to an analysis of vibrational eigenmodes [Wu et al.; Nat. Com.,2023]. This study relates the -1 topological defects to the displacement fields expected of an Eshelby inclusion, which are characterized by an orientation and the magnitude of the eigenstrain. A corresponding orientation and magnitude can be defined for each defect using the local displacement field around each defect. These parameters characterize the plastic stress relaxation associated with the local structural rearrangement and can be extracted using the fit to either the global displacement field or the local field. Both methods provide a reasonable estimation of the MD-measured stress drop, confirming the localized nature of the displacements that control both long-range deformation and stress relaxation.
title Topological characterization of rearrangements in amorphous solids
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07109