Annealing glasses by cyclic shear deformation

P Das, ADS Parmar, S Sastry - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
A major challenge in simulating glassy systems is the ability to generate configurations that
may be found in equilibrium at sufficiently low temperatures, in order to probe static and …

Ripples in the bottom of the potential energy landscape of metallic glass

L Zella, J Moon, T Egami - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
In the absence of periodicity, the structure of glass is ill-defined, and a large number of
structural states are found at similar energy levels. However, little is known about how these …

Mechanical annealing and yielding transition in cyclically sheared binary glasses

NV Priezjev - Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 2022 - Elsevier
The effect of cyclic shear deformation on structural relaxation and yielding in binary glasses
was examined using molecular dynamics simulations. We studied a binary mixture slowly …

Annealing effects of multidirectional oscillatory shear in model glass formers

VV Krishnan, K Ramola, S Karmakar - Physical Review Applied, 2023 - APS
We study the effects of cyclic, athermal quasistatic shear on a model glass-forming system in
three dimensions. We utilize the three available orthogonal shear planes, namely XY, YZ …

Shear band formation in amorphous materials under oscillatory shear deformation

NV Priezjev - Metals, 2020 - mdpi.com
The effect of periodic shear on strain localization in disordered solids is investigated using
molecular dynamics simulations. We consider a binary mixture of one million atoms …

Accelerated rejuvenation in metallic glasses subjected to elastostatic compression along alternating directions

NV Priezjev - Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 2021 - Elsevier
The influence of static stress and alternating loading direction on the potential energy and
mechanical properties of amorphous alloys is investigated using molecular dynamics …

Relaxation dynamics in amorphous alloys under asymmetric cyclic shear deformation

PK Jana, NV Priezjev - Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 2023 - Elsevier
The influence of cyclic loading and glass stability on structural relaxation and yielding
transition in amorphous alloys was investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. We …

Spatiotemporal analysis of nonaffine displacements in disordered solids sheared across the yielding point

NV Priezjev - Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 2020 - Springer
The time evolution and spatial correlations of nonaffine displacements in deformed
amorphous solids are investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. The three …

A model on the coupling between cyclic fatigue and microstructure evolution in a metallic glass

SY Liang, LT Zhang, YJ Wang, B Wang… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Establishing the intrinsic correlation between microstructural heterogeneity and mechanical
properties is a challenging issue of metallic glasses. The ratchet behavior was examined in …

Annealing glasses by cyclic shear deformation

P Das, ADS Parmar, S Sastry - arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.12476, 2018 - arxiv.org
A major challenge in simulating glassy systems is the ability to generate configurations that
may be found in equilibrium at sufficiently low temperatures, in order to probe static and …