Nanoscale periodic morphologies on the fracture surface of brittle metallic glasses

G Wang, DQ Zhao, HY Bai, MX Pan, AL Xia, BS Han… - Physical review …, 2007 - APS
Out-of-plane, nanoscale periodic corrugations are observed in the dynamic fracture surface
of brittle bulk metallic glasses with fracture toughness approaching that of silica glasses. A …

Periodic corrugation on dynamic fracture surface in brittle bulk metallic glass

XK Xi, DQ Zhao, MX Pan, WH Wang, Y Wu… - Applied physics …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
Dynamic crack propagation in a model brittle bulk metallic glass (BMG) is studied. Contrary
to other brittle glassy materials, the authors find nanometer scale out-of-plane periodic …

Evolution of nanoscale morphology on fracture surface of brittle metallic glass

G Wang, YT Wang, YH Liu, MX Pan, DQ Zhao… - Applied Physics …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
The authors report the observations of periodic morphology evolution on fracture surface of
a brittle metallic glassy ribbon, suggesting a wavy local stress intensity factor along the crack …

Wavy cleavage fracture of bulk metallic glass

ZF Zhang, FF Wu, W Gao, J Tan, ZG Wang… - Applied physics …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
Dynamic instability is one of the typical cleavage fracture features in brittle materials. The
authors find that dynamic instability of metallic glass starts to occur in the mirror region on …

Cavitation-induced fracture causes nanocorrugations in brittle metallic glasses

I Singh, R Narasimhan, U Ramamurty - Physical Review Letters, 2016 - APS
Brittle metallic glasses exhibit a unique and intriguing fracture morphology of periodic
nanocorrugations whose spacing and amplitude are of the order of tens of nanometers. We …

Dynamic fracture instability of tough bulk metallic glass

JX Meng, Z Ling, MQ Jiang, HS Zhang… - Applied Physics …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
We report the observations of a clear fractographic evolution from vein pattern, dimple
structure, and then to periodic corrugation structure, followed by microbranching pattern …

Fracture through cavitation in a metallic glass

E Bouchaud, D Boivin, JL Pouchou… - Europhysics …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
The fracture surfaces of a Zr-based bulk metallic glass exhibit exotic multi-affine isotropic
scaling properties. The study of the mismatch between the two facing fracture surfaces as a …

Atomic scale fluctuations govern brittle fracture and cavitation behavior in metallic glasses

P Murali, TF Guo, YW Zhang, R Narasimhan, Y Li… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
We perform atomistic simulations on the fracture behavior of two typical metallic glasses,
one brittle (FeP) and the other ductile (CuZr), and show that brittle fracture in the FeP glass is …

Shear bands mediate cavitation in brittle metallic glasses

P Murali, R Narasimhan, TF Guo, YW Zhang, HJ Gao - Scripta Materialia, 2013 - Elsevier
Recent experimental studies have revealed nanoscale cavities and periodic corrugations on
the fracture surfaces of brittle metallic glasses. How such cavitation in these materials leads …

Cavitation in materials with distributed weak zones: implications on the origin of brittle fracture in metallic glasses

I Singh, TF Guo, P Murali, R Narasimhan… - Journal of the …, 2013 - Elsevier
Several experimental studies have shown that fracture surfaces in brittle metallic glasses
(MGs) generally exhibit nanoscale corrugations which may be attributed to the nucleation …