Mechanical behavior of amorphous alloys

CA Schuh, TC Hufnagel, U Ramamurty - Acta Materialia, 2007 - Elsevier
The mechanical properties of amorphous alloys have proven both scientifically unique and
of potential practical interest, although the underlying deformation physics of these materials …

Designing metallic glass matrix composites with high toughness and tensile ductility

DC Hofmann, JY Suh, A Wiest, G Duan, ML Lind… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
The selection and design of modern high-performance structural engineering materials is
driven by optimizing combinations of mechanical properties such as strength, ductility …

Polyurethane nanofibers containing copper nanoparticles as future materials

FA Sheikh, MA Kanjwal, S Saran, WJ Chung… - Applied Surface …, 2011 - Elsevier
In the present study, we aimed to represent a novel approach to fabricate polyurethane
nanofibers containing copper nanoparticles (NPs) by simple electrospinning process. A …

Compressive ductility and fracture resistance in CuZr-based shape-memory metallic-glass composites

X Fu, G Wang, Y Wu, W Song, CH Shek… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The uniaxial compression behavior of Cu 51.5 Zr 48.5 shape-memory metallic-glass
composites was systematically studied, from the perspective of discerning the salient micro …

Thermal and mechanical properties of Cu–Zr–Al bulk metallic glasses

TL Cheung, CH Shek - Journal of alloys and compounds, 2007 - Elsevier
The effects of adding small amount of aluminum to the binary Cu50Zr50 bulk metallic glass
(BMG) on the thermal and mechanical properties were investigated. The Al addition was …

Percolation-like transition from nanoscale structural heterogeneities to shear bands in metallic glass detected by static force microscopy

F Xu, YZ Liu, X Sun, JF Peng, YH Ding, JT Huo… - Applied Surface …, 2023 - Elsevier
Structural heterogeneities of metallic glasses at the nanoscale have been confirmed by
many experiments. Some simulations indicate that these structural heterogeneities show a …

Thermophysical and elastic properties of Cu50Zr50 and (Cu50Zr50) 95Al5 bulk-metallic-glass-forming alloys

GJ Fan, M Freels, H Choo, PK Liaw, JJZ Li… - Applied physics …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
By employing a containerless high-temperature high-vacuum electrostatic levitation
technique, the thermophysical properties, including the ratio between the specific heat …

Effects of cooling rate on the atomic structure of Cu64Zr36 binary metallic glass

F Li, H Zhang, X Liu, C Yu, Z Lu - Computational Materials Science, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, molecular dynamics simulations based on the embedded atom model (EAM)
potentials were carried out to investigate influences of cooling rate on the ordered atomic …

[HTML][HTML] Deformation behavior of annealed Cu64Zr36 metallic glass via molecular dynamics simulations

X Yue, J Brechtl, F Wang, Z Chang, PK Liaw, C Fan - Materials & Design, 2020 - Elsevier
In the present work, we investigate the isothermal annealing process of Cu 64 Zr 36 metallic
glass (MG) by means of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, and characterize the …

Are hints about glass forming ability hidden in the liquid structure?

J Wang, A Agrawal, K Flores - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite intense interest, identifying the structural origin of glass forming ability in metallic
alloys remains a challenge due to the difficulty of describing the evolution of the long-range …