Bulk metallic glasses as structural materials: a review

JJ Kruzic - Advanced Engineering Materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) can exhibit excellent combinations of strength and fracture
toughness that cannot be achieved by traditional metals, making them attractive for load …

Progressive shear band propagation in metallic glasses under compression

RT Qu, ZQ Liu, G Wang, ZF Zhang - Acta Materialia, 2015 - Elsevier
Shear band plays a key role in dominating the strength and plasticity of metallic glasses, and
exhibits two kinds of propagation modes under compression, ie, progressive and …

Toughness enhancement and heterogeneous softening of a cryogenically cycled Zr–Cu–Ni–Al–Nb bulk metallic glass

BS Li, S Xie, JJ Kruzic - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, as-cast and cold-rolled Zr 63.78 Cu 14.72 Ni 10 Al 10 Nb 1.5 bulk metallic glass
(BMG) samples were subjected to 20, 70, 120, and 170 cryogenic thermal cycles prior to …

Electrodeposition in bulk metallic glasses

VS Saji - Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Electrodeposition is a simple and economical method that can be employed for fabricating
nanostructured surface coatings and bulk materials. This review presents applications of …

Superior tensile ductility in bulk metallic glass with gradient amorphous structure

Q Wang, Y Yang, H Jiang, CT Liu, HH Ruan, J Lu - Scientific Reports, 2014 - nature.com
Over centuries, structural glasses have been deemed as a strong yet inherently
'brittle'material due to their lack of tensile ductility. However, here we report bulk metallic …

Ductile bulk metallic glass by controlling structural heterogeneities

S Scudino, JJ Bian, H Shakur Shahabi, D Şopu… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
A prerequisite to utilize the full potential of structural heterogeneities for improving the room-
temperature plastic deformation of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) is to understand their …

In situ investigation of the evolution of shear transformation zones with different elastic tensile strains in metallic glass

F Xu, Y Liu, B Dai, Y Ding, C Kursun, M Gao - Materials Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Shear transformation zones are usually thought as the fundamental unit characterizing
microscopic atomic rearrangement motion during deformation in amorphous materials and …

Enhanced tensile strength and ductility of bulk metallic glasses Zr52. 5Cu17. 9Al10Ni14. 6Ti5 via high-pressure torsion

ZQ Ren, AA Churakova, X Wang, S Goel, SN Liu… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Zr 52.5 Cu 17.9 Al 10 Ni 14.6 Ti 5 (Vit105) Bulk metallic glass is processed by High-
Pressure Torsion up to 30 rotations at room temperature, showing simultaneous …

Tailored hardening of ZrCuAl bulk metallic glass induced by 2D gradient rejuvenation

W Ryu, R Yamada, J Saida - NPG Asia Materials, 2020 - nature.com
The work hardening behavior of bulk metallic glasses has not been previously ascribed to
their intrinsic structure but rather to the introduction of other components that act as …

Enhancing material toughness by introducing defects

Y Chen, Y Yang, H Jiang - Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2024 - Elsevier
Achieving high toughness is still very challenging in material science. Defect engineering
offers novel avenues for making tough materials by finely adjusting microstructures, rather …