Indentation, owing to its ability to induce permanent deformation in a controlled manner
even in highly brittle materials that are otherwise not amenable to critical mechanical testing …

Shear band is the key feature that controls the plastic deformation process of metallic
glasses (MGs). However, the investigation directly on the shear band and its properties is …

Dynamic mechanical relaxation is a fundamental tool to understand the mechanical and
physical properties of viscoelastic materials like glasses. Mechanical spectroscopy shows …

The existence of an indentation size effect (ISE) in the onset of yield in a Zr-based bulk
metallic glass (BMG) is investigated by employing spherical-tip nanoindentation …

Two-dimensional cold rolling was performed on a bulk metallic glass (BMG) with
composition Zr 58.5 Cu 15.6 Ni 12.8 Al 10.3 Nb 2.8. The average shear band density …

The hardness properties of materials are tracked from early history until the present time.
Emphasis is placed on the hardness test being a useful probe for determining the local …

Nanomechanical properties along a single shear band in a Zr-based metallic glass were
studied. Spatial mapping of both indentation hardness and modulus reveal complex long …

Two dimensional mapping of structural properties near a single shear band in a Zr-based
bulk metallic glass reveals the presence of hardness and modulus reductions at a …

A systematic investigation of the shear band evolution and hardness change with
deformation was performed on cold-rolled Zr64. 13Cu15. 75Ni10. 12Al10 and Zr46 …

Room temperature, uniaxial compression creep experiments were performed on micro-
/nano-sized pillars (having diameters in the range of 250–2000nm) of a Zr-based bulk …