Shear bands in metallic glasses

AL Greer, YQ Cheng, E Ma - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2013 - Elsevier
Shear-banding is a ubiquitous plastic-deformation mode in materials. In metallic glasses,
shear bands are particularly important as they play the decisive role in controlling plasticity …

Metallic glass-reinforced metal matrix composites: Design, interfaces and properties

K Georgarakis, DV Dudina, VI Kvashnin - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
When metals are modified by second-phase particles or fibers, metal matrix composites
(MMCs) are formed. In general, for a given metallic matrix, reinforcements differing in their …

Towards ultrastrong glasses

L Wondraczek, JC Mauro, J Eckert, U Kühn, J Horbach… - 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The development of new glassy materials is key for addressing major global challenges in
energy, medicine, and advanced communications systems. For example, thin, flexible, and …

Enhancing the plasticity of metallic glasses: Shear band formation, nanocomposites and nanoglasses investigated by molecular dynamics simulations

K Albe, Y Ritter, D Şopu - Mechanics of Materials, 2013 - Elsevier
We investigate the influence of various microstructural features on the deformation behavior
of binary Cu 64 Zr 36 glasses by molecular dynamics computer simulations and discuss how …

Mechanical properties of bulk metallic glasses

AR Yavari, JJ Lewandowski, J Eckert - Mrs Bulletin, 2007 - cambridge.org
In the absence of dislocation-mediated crystallographic slip, room-temperature deformation
in metallic glasses occurs in thin shear bands initially only∼ 10 nm thick. A sharp drop in …

Novel class of nanostructured metallic glass films with superior and tunable mechanical properties

M Ghidelli, A Orekhov, AL Bassi, G Terraneo, P Djemia… - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
A novel class of nanostructured Zr 50 Cu 50 (% at.) metallic glass films with superior and
tunable mechanical properties is produced by pulsed laser deposition. The process can be …

Nucleation of shear bands in amorphous alloys

JH Perepezko, SD Imhoff, MW Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The initiation and propagation of shear bands is an important mode of localized
inhomogeneous deformation that occurs in a wide range of materials. In metallic glasses …

Effect of annealing on mechanical properties and thermal stability of ZrCu/O nanocomposite amorphous films synthetized by pulsed laser deposition

F Bignoli, S Rashid, E Rossi, S Jaddi, P Djemia… - Materials & Design, 2022 - Elsevier
Binary ZrCu nanocomposite amorphous films are synthetized by pulsed laser deposition
(PLD) under vacuum (2× 10− 3 Pa) and 10 Pa He pressure, leading to fully amorphous …

Metallic glass nanolaminates with shape memory alloys

D Şopu, K Albe, J Eckert - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
We model the deformation behavior of metallic amorphous Cu 64 Zr 36/crystalline B2 CuZr
nanolaminate systems using molecular-dynamics computer simulations. Amorphous …

From metallic glasses to nanocrystals: Molecular dynamics simulations on the crossover from glass-like to grain-boundary-mediated deformation behaviour

T Brink, K Albe - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Nanocrystalline metals contain a large fraction of high-energy grain boundaries, which may
be considered as glassy phases. Consequently, with decreasing grain size, a crossover in …