Effect of quenched heterogeneity on creep lifetimes of disordered materials

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Main Authors: Verano-Espitia, Juan Carlos, Weiss, Jérôme, Amitrano, David, Mäkinen, Tero, Alava, Mikko
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author Verano-Espitia, Juan Carlos
Weiss, Jérôme
Amitrano, David
Mäkinen, Tero
Alava, Mikko
author_facet Verano-Espitia, Juan Carlos
Weiss, Jérôme
Amitrano, David
Mäkinen, Tero
Alava, Mikko
contents We revisit the problem of describing creep in heterogeneous materials by an effective temperature by considering more realistic (and complex) non-mean-field elastic redistribution kernels. We show first, from theoretical considerations, that, if elastic stress redistribution and memory effects are neglected, the average creep failure time follows an Arrhenius expression with an effective temperature explicitly increasing with the quenched heterogeneity. Using a thermally activated progressive damage model of compressive failure, we show that this holds true when taking into account elastic interactions and memory effects, however with an effective temperature $T_{eff}$ depending as well on the nature of the (non-democratic) elastic interaction kernel. We observe that the variability of creep lifetimes, for given external conditions of load and temperature, is roughly proportional to the mean lifetime, therefore depends as well on $T$, on quenched heterogeneity, and the elastic kernel. Finally, we discuss the implications of this effective temperature effect on the interpretation of macroscopic creep tests to estimate an activation volume at the microscale.
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spellingShingle Effect of quenched heterogeneity on creep lifetimes of disordered materials
Verano-Espitia, Juan Carlos
Weiss, Jérôme
Amitrano, David
Mäkinen, Tero
Alava, Mikko
Statistical Mechanics
Materials Science
We revisit the problem of describing creep in heterogeneous materials by an effective temperature by considering more realistic (and complex) non-mean-field elastic redistribution kernels. We show first, from theoretical considerations, that, if elastic stress redistribution and memory effects are neglected, the average creep failure time follows an Arrhenius expression with an effective temperature explicitly increasing with the quenched heterogeneity. Using a thermally activated progressive damage model of compressive failure, we show that this holds true when taking into account elastic interactions and memory effects, however with an effective temperature $T_{eff}$ depending as well on the nature of the (non-democratic) elastic interaction kernel. We observe that the variability of creep lifetimes, for given external conditions of load and temperature, is roughly proportional to the mean lifetime, therefore depends as well on $T$, on quenched heterogeneity, and the elastic kernel. Finally, we discuss the implications of this effective temperature effect on the interpretation of macroscopic creep tests to estimate an activation volume at the microscale.
title Effect of quenched heterogeneity on creep lifetimes of disordered materials
topic Statistical Mechanics
Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01766