Recently, various studies dealing with the relationship between the elastic constants and
various of the macroscopic properties of metallic glasses have been published. Particularly,
the correlations between Poisson's ratio of the glass and both the super cooled liquid
viscosity behavior and the brittle-ductile transition have aroused much interest. We use a
model developed by Knuyt et al.(1990 and 1991) based on a Gaussian distribution for the
nearest-neighbor distance in an ideal unicomponent metallic glass in order to describe …

Recently, various studies dealing with the relationship between the elastic constants and
various of the macroscopic properties of metallic glasses have been published. Particularly,
the correlations between the Poisson's ratio of the glass and both the super-cooled liquid
viscosity behaviour and the brittle-ductile transition have aroused much interest. In this work,
we use a model developed by Knuyt et al.(1990 and 1991) based on a Gaussian distribution
for the nearest-neighbour distance in an ideal uni-component metallic glass, in order to …