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Ultrasonic-assisted plastic flow in a Zr-based metallic glass

锆基金属玻璃超声振动下的塑性流动行为

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Ultrasonic vibration can be used for the micro-molding of metallic glasses (MGs) due to stress-softening and fast surface-diffusion effects. However, the structural rearrangement under ultrasonic vibration and its impact on the mechanical response of metallic glasses remain a puzzle. In this work, the plastic flow of the Zr35Ti30Cu8.25Be26.75 metallic glass with the applied ultrasonic-vibration energy of 140 J was investigated by nanoindentation. Both Kelvin and Maxwell-Voigt models have been adopted to analyze the structural evolution during the creep deformation. The increase of the characteristic relaxation time and the peak intensity of relaxation spectra can be found in the sample after ultrasonic vibration. It effectively improves the activation energy of atomic diffusion during the glass transition (Eg) and the growth of the crystal nucleus (Ep). A more homogenous plastic deformation with a weak loading-rate sensitivity of stress exponent is observed in the ultrasonic-vibrated sample, which coincides with the low pile-up and penetration depth as shown in the cross profile of indents. The structural rearrangement under resonance actuation demonstrated in this work might help us better understand the defect-activation mechanism for the plastic flow of amorphous systems.

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由于应力软化和表面快速扩散效应, 超声振动可以用于金属玻璃微成型. 然而, 超声振动下的结构重排及其对金属玻璃力学响应机制的影响仍不清楚. 本工作采用纳米压痕方法研究了超声振动能量为140 J的Zr35Ti30Cu8.25Be26.75金属玻璃的塑性流动行为. 我们采用Kelvin和Maxwell-Voigt模型分析了蠕变过程中的结构演化. 研究发现, 高频超声振动后样品的特征弛豫时间增长且弛豫峰增强. 它有效地提高了玻璃转变和晶核生长过程中原子扩散的激活能. 我们在超声振动样品中观察到较均匀的塑性变形行为, 还发现超声振动之后加载速率对金属玻璃应力指数的敏感性减弱的现象. 本文有关共振驱动下的结构重排现象的研究有助于更好地理解非晶态系统塑性流动行为的缺陷激活机制.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51631003, 51871157 and 51601038), the Key Basic and Applied Research Program of Guangdong Province, China (2019B030302010), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China (BK20171354), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2242020K40002), the Research and Practice Innovation Program for Postgraduates in Jiangsu Province (SJCX20_0388), and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Advanced Metallic Materials (BM2007204).

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Advanced Metallic Materials, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, China

    Chenchen Yuan  (袁晨晨), Zhuwei Lv  (吕祝薇), Changmeng Pang  (庞昌蒙), Rui Liu  (刘睿) & Baolong Shen  (沈宝龙)

  2. College of Mechatronics and Control Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China

    Xin Li  (李信), Can Yang  (杨灿) & Jiang Ma  (马将)

  3. Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, 523808, China

    Haibo Ke  (柯海波) & Weihua Wang  (汪卫华)

  4. Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Weihua Wang  (汪卫华)

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Author contributions Yuan C, Lv Z, and Ma J planned the experimental work. Li X and Yang C carried out the sample preparation and ultrasonic-vibration experiments. Lv Z carried out the nanoindentation experiments. Pang C carried out SEM and DSC measurements. Yuan C, Lv Z, Liu R, Pang C, and Ke H analyzed the experimental data. Yuan C wrote the paper with input and advice from Ke H, Wang W, and Shen B.

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Chenchen Yuan received her MSc degree from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 2009, and PhD degree from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013. She is currently an associate professor at Southeast University, Nanjing, China. Her research interests focus on the electronic/atomic structure and its relationship with the mechanical properties of metallic glasses.

Haibo Ke received his PhD degree from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2012. He is currently a research professor in Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, China. His research interests focus on the glass transition and structure relaxation behavior of metallic glasses.

Baolong Shen received his MSc degree from Shanghai Research Institute of Materials, Shanghai, China, in 1991, and PhD degree from Himeji Institute of Technology, Japan, in 1999. He is currently a professor at Southeast University, Nanjing, China. His research interests focus on the structure and related properties (magnetism, mechanics, etc.) of ferromagnetic bulk amorphous alloys.

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Yuan, C., Lv, Z., Pang, C. et al. Ultrasonic-assisted plastic flow in a Zr-based metallic glass. Sci. China Mater. 64, 448–459 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40843-020-1411-2

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