A mechanism of failure in shear bands

Microscopic mechanism of shear bands in amorphous solids.

The fundamental instability responsible for the shear localization which results in shear bands in amorphous solids remains unknown despite an enormous amount of research, both experimental and theoretical. As this is the main mechanism for the failure of metallic glasses, understanding the instability is invaluable in finding how to stabilize such materials against the tendency to shear locali...

Fluid depletion in shear bands.

How does pore liquid reconfigure within shear bands in wet granular media? Conventional wisdom predicts that liquid is drawn into dilating granular media. We, however, find a depletion of liquid in shear bands despite increased porosity due to dilatancy. This apparent paradox is resolved by a microscale model for liquid transport at low liquid contents induced by rupture and reconfiguration of ...

Propagation of Adiabatic Shear Bands

Numerical Computations For Shear Bands in an Antiplane Shear Model

We study numerically a model for shear bands that is loosely based on anti-plane shearing of granular material. In the model, a shear band is idealized to a jump discontinuity in the solution to the dynamic PDE. We do not explicitly incorporate small scale eeects within the shear band into the model{rather at the shear band we impose a jump condition which includes a length parameter modeling t...

Localized crystallization in shear bands of a metallic glass

Stress-induced viscous flow is the characteristic of atomic movements during plastic deformation of metallic glasses in the absence of substantial temperature increase, which suggests that stress state plays an important role in mechanically induced crystallization in a metallic glass. However, it is poorly understood. Here, we report on the stress-induced localized crystallization in individua...