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The Effect of Atomic-Scale Open-Volume on Flow and Fracture Processes in a Zr-Ti-Ni-Cu-Be Bulk Metallic Glass

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2011

Daewoong Suh
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
Reinhold H. Dauskardt
Affiliation:
Currently at Materials and Engineering Sciences Center Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94551
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Abstract

Effects of atomic-scale open-volume regions in metallic glass structure on the flow and fracture behavior of a Zr-Ti-Ni-Cu-Be bulk metallic glass were examined. Studies of relaxation time scales showed that atomic arrangement processes for viscous flow were significantly retarded with annealing. Plane strain fracture toughness was significantly decreased and fatigue crack crack-growth rates were dramatically increased, indicating degradation of resistance to crack extension as a result of annealing. Fracture morphology completely changed from vein patterns to cleavage-like features with little evidence of plasticity with annealing. The positron lifetime and Doppler broadening experiments revealed decreased open-volume regions as a result of annealing. The loss of stress relief ability by retarded crack tip viscous flow as a result of the anneal-out of open-volume regions is believed to contribute to observed annealing embrittlement.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2003

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