Atomistic study on tensile fracture of densified silica glass and its dependence on strain rate

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/abb3f2

Abstract Densification is a major feature of silica glass that has received widespread attention. This work investigates the fracture behavior of densified silica glass upon uniaxial tension based on atomistic simulations. It is shown that the tensile strength of the silica glass approximately experiences a parabolic reduction with the initial density, while the densified samples show a faster power growth with the increase of strain rate. Meanwhile, the fracture strain and strain energy increase significantly when the densification exceeds a certain threshold, but fracture strain tends to the same value and strain energy becomes closer for different densified samples at extreme high strain rate. Microscopic views indicate that all the cracks are formed by the aggregation of nanoscale voids. The transition from brittleness fracture to ductility fracture can be found with the increase of strain rate, as a few fracture cracks change into a network distribution of many small cracks. Strikingly, for the high densified sample, there appears an evident plastic flow before fracture, which leads to the crack number less than the normal silica glass at the high strain rate. Furthermore, the coordinated silicon analysis suggests that high strain rate tension will especially lead to the transition from 4-to 3-fold Si when the high densified sample is in plastic flow.

Keywords: silica glass densification fracture strain rate atomistic simulation

Received: 22 June 2020
Revised: 19 July 2020
Accepted manuscript online: 01 September 2020

PACS:	81.05.Kf	(Glasses (including metallic glasses))
	81.70.Bt	(Mechanical testing, impact tests, static and dynamic loads)
	62.20.mm	(Fracture)
	62.20.-x	(Mechanical properties of solids)

Fund: Project supported by Beijing Institute of Technology Research Fund Program for Young Scholars.

Corresponding Authors: ^†Corresponding author. E-mail: shao_jianli@bit.edu.cn ^‡Corresponding author. E-mail: meiyong1990@126.com

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Zhi-Qiang Hu(胡志强), Jian-Li Shao(邵建立), Yi-Fan Xie(谢轶凡), and Yong Mei(梅勇) Atomistic study on tensile fracture of densified silica glass and its dependence on strain rate 2020 Chin. Phys. B 29 128101

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