The fracture of bulk metallic glasses

BA Sun, WH Wang - Progress in Materials Science, 2015 - Elsevier
The fracture of metallic glasses has received relatively little attention until recently. The
development of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) with more compositions, large sample sizes …

Interatomic potentials: Achievements and challenges

MH Müser, SV Sukhomlinov, L Pastewka - Advances in Physics: X, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Interatomic potentials approximate the potential energy of atoms as a function of their
coordinates. Their main application is the effective simulation of many-atom systems. Here …

Hierarchical structures of amorphous solids characterized by persistent homology

Y Hiraoka, T Nakamura, A Hirata… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
This article proposes a topological method that extracts hierarchical structures of various
amorphous solids. The method is based on the persistence diagram (PD), a mathematical …

Atomic-level processes of shear band nucleation in metallic glasses

D Şopu, A Stukowski, M Stoica, S Scudino - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
The ability to control the plastic deformation of amorphous metals is based on the capacity to
influence the percolation of the shear transformation zones (STZs). Despite the recent …

Thin film metallic glasses: Unique properties and potential applications

JP Chu, JSC Jang, JC Huang, HS Chou, Y Yang… - Thin Solid Films, 2012 - Elsevier
A new group of thin film metallic glasses (TFMGs) have been reported to exhibit properties
different from conventional crystalline metal films, though their bulk forms are already well …

Development of suitable interatomic potentials for simulation of liquid and amorphous Cu–Zr alloys

MI Mendelev, MJ Kramer, RT Ott, DJ Sordelet… - Philosophical …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
We present a new semi-empirical potential suitable for molecular dynamics simulations of
liquid and amorphous Cu–Zr alloys. To provide input data for developing the potential, new …

Modeling the mechanics of amorphous solids at different length scale and time scale

D Rodney, A Tanguy… - … and simulation in …, 2011 - new.iopscience.iop.org
We review the recent literature on the simulation of the structure and deformation of
amorphous solids, including oxide and metallic glasses. We consider simulations at different …

Structural signature of plastic deformation in metallic glasses

HL Peng, MZ Li, WH Wang - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
The structure feature of a model CuZr metallic glass during deformation is investigated by
molecular dynamics simulations. A spatially heterogeneous irreversible rearrangement is …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Distinct relaxation mechanism at room temperature in metallic glass

YT Sun, R Zhao, DW Ding, YH Liu, HY Bai… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
How glasses relax at room temperature is still a great challenge for both experimental and
simulation studies due to the extremely long relaxation time-scale. Here, by employing a …