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Excess vibrational density of states and the brittle to ductile transition in crystalline and amorphous solids

Publication Type : Journal Article

Publisher : Soft Matter, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Volume 12, Issue 4, p.1210 - 1218 (2016)

Source : Soft Matter, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Volume 12, Issue 4, p.1210 - 1218 (2016)

Url : http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C5SM02200B

Campus : Amritapuri

School : School of Engineering

Center : Amrita Innovation & Research

Department : Mechanical

Verified : Yes

Year : 2016

Abstract : The conditions which determine whether a material behaves in a brittle or ductile fashion on mechanical loading are still elusive and comprise a topic of active research among materials physicists and engineers. In this study, we present the results of in silico mechanical deformation experiments from two very different model solids in two and three dimensions. The first consists of particles interacting with isotropic potentials and the other has strongly direction dependent interactions. We show that in both cases, the excess vibrational density of states is one of the fundamental quantities which characterizes the ductility of the material. Our results can be checked using careful experiments on colloidal solids.

Cite this Research Publication : Jeetu S. Babu, Chandana Mondal, Surajit Sengupta, and Smarajit Karmakar, “Excess vibrational density of states and the brittle to ductile transition in crystalline and amorphous solids”, Soft Matter, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 1210 - 1218, 2016.

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