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Unraveling the threshold stress of structural rejuvenation of metallic glasses via thermo-mechanical creep

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The competition between physical aging and structural rejuvenation determines the physical and mechanical properties of glassy materials. Thus, the rejuvenation-aging boundary must be identified quantitatively. In this work, we unravel a stress boundary to distinguish rejuvenation from aging via the thermo-mechanical creep of a typical Zr-based metallic glass. The crept glasses were rejuvenated into high-enthalpy disordered states when the applied stress exceeded a threshold that was numerically close to the steady-state flow stress; otherwise, the glasses were aged. A theoretical model for glass creep was adopted to demystify the observed stress threshold of rejuvenation. The model revealed that the thermo-mechanical creep beyond the threshold stress could activate sufficient shear transformations to create a net free volume, thus leading to structural rejuvenation. Furthermore, we derived the analytical expressions for the threshold and flow stresses. Both stresses can act as the rejuvenation-aging boundary, which is well supported by experimental creep data. The present work procures a deeper understanding of the rejuvenation mechanism of glasses and provides useful implications for abstaining from glass aging.

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, China

    Gan Ding & Feng Jiang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Gan Ding, Xuan Song, LanHong Dai & MinQiang Jiang

  3. School of Engineering Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Xuan Song, LanHong Dai & MinQiang Jiang

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This work was supported by the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund Project (Grant No. 12125206), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11972345, and 11790292), and the NSFC Basic Science Center for “Multiscale Problems in Nonlinear Mechanics” (Grant No. 11988102).

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Ding, G., Jiang, F., Song, X. et al. Unraveling the threshold stress of structural rejuvenation of metallic glasses via thermo-mechanical creep. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 65, 264613 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-021-1878-4

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