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 …

Atomic-level structure and structure–property relationship in metallic glasses

YQ Cheng, E Ma - Progress in materials science, 2011 - Elsevier
The structure of metallic glasses (MGs) has been a long-standing mystery. On the one hand,
MGs are amorphous materials with no long-range structural order; on the other hand …

Five-fold symmetry as indicator of dynamic arrest in metallic glass-forming liquids

YC Hu, FX Li, MZ Li, HY Bai, WH Wang - Nature communications, 2015 - nature.com
With sufficient high cooling rates, a variety of liquids, including metallic melts, will cross a
glass transition temperature and solidify into glass accompanying a marked increase of the …

Local order influences initiation of plastic flow in metallic glass: Effects of alloy composition and sample cooling history

YQ Cheng, AJ Cao, HW Sheng, E Ma - Acta Materialia, 2008 - Elsevier
Bulk metallic glasses (MGs) with tunable plasticity and strength have been reported recently.
Using Cu–Zr and Cu–Zr–Al MG models, here we illustrate how and why alloy composition …

Correlation between the elastic modulus and the intrinsic plastic behavior of metallic glasses: The roles of atomic configuration and alloy composition

YQ Cheng, AJ Cao, E Ma - Acta Materialia, 2009 - Elsevier
Recent reports suggest that Poisson's ratio (ν), or the related ratio of shear modulus G to
bulk modulus B, indicates the potential of metallic glasses (MGs) to sustain plastic strain …

Matching glass-forming ability with the density of the amorphous phase

Y Li, Q Guo, JA Kalb, CV Thompson - science, 2008 - science.org
The density of the amorphous phase of metals is generally thought to be related to glass
formation, but this correlation has not been demonstrated experimentally to date. In this …

Atomic-scale origin of shear band multiplication in heterogeneous metallic glasses

D Şopu, S Scudino, XL Bian, C Gammer, J Eckert - Scripta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Using molecular dynamics simulations, we provide an atomistic description of the shear
band multiplication mechanisms in a heterogeneous metallic glass consisting of two distinct …

Networked interpenetrating connections of icosahedra: Effects on shear transformations in metallic glass

M Lee, CM Lee, KR Lee, E Ma, JC Lee - Acta Materialia, 2011 - Elsevier
The local structures of metallic glasses have been analyzed previously in term of various
types of short-range order (SRO). However, the SRO alone, neglecting the interconnection …

Elastostatically induced structural disordering in amorphous alloys

KW Park, CM Lee, M Wakeda, Y Shibutani, ML Falk… - Acta Materialia, 2008 - Elsevier
This study demonstrates that elastostatic compression imposed on amorphous alloys at
room temperature induces irreversible structural disordering. The rate of disordering …

Structure-dynamics relationships in cryogenically deformed bulk metallic glass

F Spieckermann, D Şopu, V Soprunyuk… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The atomistic mechanisms occurring during the processes of aging and rejuvenation in
glassy materials involve very small structural rearrangements that are extremely difficult to …