Predicting plastic events and quantifying the local yield surface in 3D model glasses

By applying the local yield stress (LYS) method to probe local regions of three-dimensional computational glass models, we confirm high correlations between the measured local yield stress (Δτc) and the plastic events when the parameterization of the method is properly optimized. The optimal probing region for this system is found to be ∼5σ in radius, where σ represents the Lennard-Jones length scale, approximately the atomic size. The averaged...