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Notch fracture toughness of glasses: Rate, age and geometry dependence
Materials Science · Submitted 9 Apr 2016
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The authors' main claim The theory highlights the importance of timescales competition and far from steady-state elasto-viscoplastic dynamics for understanding the toughness, and shows that the latter varies quite significantly with the glass age (history) and applied loading rate.
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Understanding the fracture toughness (resistance) of glasses is a fundamental problem of prime theoretical and practical importance. Here we theoretically study its dependence on the loading rate, the age (history) of the glass and the notch radius $\rho$. Reduced-dimensionality analysis suggests that the notch fracture toughness results from a competition between the initial, age- and history-dependent, plastic relaxation timescale $\tau^{pl}_0$ and an effective loading timescale $\tau^{ext}(\dot{K}_I,\rho)$, where $\dot{K}_I$ is the tensile stress-intensity-factor rate. The toughness is predicted to scale with $\sqrt{\rho}$ independently of $\xi\!\equiv\!\tau^{ext}\!/\tau^{pl}_0$ for $\xi\!\ll\! 1$, to scale as $T\sqrt{\rho}\,\log(\xi)$ for $\xi\!\gg\!1$ (related to thermal activation, where $T$ is the temperature) and to feature a non-monotonic behavior in the crossover region $\xi\!\sim\!{\cal O}(1)$ (related to plastic yielding dynamics). These predictions are verified using novel 2D computations, providing a unified picture of the notch fracture toughness of glasses. The theory highlights the importance of timescales competition and far from steady-state elasto-viscoplastic dynamics for understanding the toughness, and shows that the latter varies quite significantly with the glass age (history) and applied loading rate. Experimental support for bulk metallic glasses is presented.
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| s0 | Understanding the fracture toughness (resistance) of glasses is a fundamental problem of prime theoretical and practical importance. | background 1.00 | 0.04 | 0.02 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | Here we theoretically study its dependence on the loading rate, the age (history) of the glass and the notch radius $\rho$. | contribution 0.99 | 0.93 | 0.05 | asserted 0.73 |
| s2 | Reduced-dimensionality analysis suggests that the notch fracture toughness results from a competition between the initial, age- and history-dependent, plastic relaxation timescale $\tau^{pl}_0$ and an effective loading timescale $\tau^{ext}(\dot{K}_I,\rho)$, where $\dot{K}_I$ is the tensile stress-intensity-factor rate. | result 0.60 | 0.79 | 0.35 | hedged possibility 0.96 |
| s3 | The toughness is predicted to scale with $\sqrt{\rho}$ independently of $\xi\!\equiv\!\tau^{ext}\!/\tau^{pl}_0$ for $\xi\!\ll\! 1$, to scale as $T\sqrt{\rho}\,\log(\xi)$ for $\xi\!\gg\!1$ (related to thermal activation, where $T$ is the temperature) and to feature a non-monotonic behavior in the crossover region $\xi\!\sim\!{\cal O}(1)$ (related to plastic yielding dynamics). | result 1.00 | 0.87 | 0.49 | asserted 0.85 |
| s4 | These predictions are verified using novel 2D computations, providing a unified picture of the notch fracture toughness of glasses. | method 0.36 | 0.94 | 0.20 | asserted 1.00 |
| s5 | The theory highlights the importance of timescales competition and far from steady-state elasto-viscoplastic dynamics for understanding the toughness, and shows that the latter varies quite significantly with the glass age (history) and applied loading rate. | interpretation 0.99 | 0.89 | 0.54 | asserted 1.00 |
| s6 | Experimental support for bulk metallic glasses is presented. | contribution 0.58 | 0.74 | 0.04 | asserted 1.00 |
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Understanding the fracture toughness (resistance) of glasses is a fundamental problem of prime theoretical and practical importance. Here we theoretically study its dependence on the loading rate, the age (history) of the glass and the notch radius $\rho$. Reduced-dimensionality analysis suggests that the notch fracture toughness results from a competition between the initial, age- and history-dependent, plastic relaxation timescale $\tau^{pl}_0$ and an effective loading timescale $\tau^{ext}(\dot{K}_I,\rho)$, where $\dot{K}_I$ is the tensile stress-intensity-factor rate. The toughness is predicted to scale with $\sqrt{\rho}$ independently of $\xi\!\equiv\!\tau^{ext}\!/\tau^{pl}_0$ for $\xi\!\ll\! 1$, to scale as $T\sqrt{\rho}\,\log(\xi)$ for $\xi\!\gg\!1$ (related to thermal activation, where $T$ is the temperature) and to feature a non-monotonic behavior in the crossover region $\xi\!\sim\!{\cal O}(1)$ (related to plastic yielding dynamics). These predictions are verified using novel 2D computations, providing a unified picture of the notch fracture toughness of glasses. The theory highlights the importance of timescales competition and far from steady-state elasto-viscoplastic dynamics for understanding the toughness, and shows that the latter varies quite significantly with the glass age (history) and applied loading rate. Experimental support for bulk metallic glasses is presented.
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