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SUBMITTER: Champion Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7330049 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Champion Yannick Y Thurieau Nicolas N
Scientific reports 20200701 1
The sample size effect on deformation mode of glasses is one of the most misunderstood properties of this class of material. This effect is intriguing, since materials deemed macroscopically brittle become plastic at small size. We propose an explanation of this phenomenon for metallic glasses. A thermodynamic description of the local rearrangement zones activated under an applied stress is proposed. Using the Poisson distribution to describe the statistics of these zones and the statistical phy ...[more]