… However, the details and mechanisms of anelastic deformation are still unclear. Consequently,
it is necessary to construct an effective indicator to describe the total creep process. …

… in metallic glasses that entail activation, growth and/or annihilation of flow defects, which
however are not accounted for in the previous mean field … anelastic and plastic deformation, we …

… shear model [17,18], quasi-point defects [19], liquid-like regions [20] or flow units [21].
Nevertheless, these models are virtually grounded on a mean-field … , the anelastic deformation is …

… also been proposed in a mean-field theory. It advocates that … elastic deformation regime in
a wide range of metallic glasses … if that anelasticity is the underlying mechanisms for damping. …

… the dynamic defects in metallic glasses from the perspective … failure of the assumptions of
mean-field theory in some cases [… of atoms are involved in anelastic behavior under load [33]. …

… , we study the plastic behaviors of metallic glasses under different energy states by …
from anelasticity to plasticity, ie, the anelastic deformation stored in the metallic glasses …

… (22) as well as bulk metallic glasses close to the glass transition … variants of mean-field
models in condensed-matter theory (59). … and deformed using MD and metadynamics modeling, …

… relaxation process, anelastic and viscoplastic components during the deformation process.
… Notably, the increase of the relaxation enthalpy is essentially a mean-field parameter, in …

… (1) in PEL model is essentially a mean-field theory that averages out all possible … model
and thus shed light on the understanding of heterogenous deformation in metallic glasses…

… achieved in understanding the anelastic deformation [2,11,12… an inhomogeneous local elastic
model (a mean-field model) is … local elastic properties of metallic glasses under hydrostatic …