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Serrated Behaviors and Plasticity of Nb-Alloyed Cu-Based Bulk Metallic Glasses

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This paper is to disclose the plastic deformation mechanism of 3 Nb-alloyed bulk metallic glasses and composites via the analysis of serration dynamics. The as-cast alloys with 1.0 at% and 2.0 at% of Nb element display the large time window of serrated events, implying that the serrated behavior can dynamically retain in a long-time scale and thus the alloys are endowed the largest compressive plasticity. The statistic results suggest that the serrated flow of both alloys with 1.0 at% and 2.0 at% Nb element achieves the self-organized critical state. The normal probability plots were utilized to further evaluate serrated dynamics and demonstrate that large deviations from the mean value of stress drops facilitate the self-organized critical state of serrations. This work suggests that large plastic bulk metallic glasses and composites are characterized by non-normal probability of serration statistics during plastic deformation.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51601050), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Advanced Metallic Materials (Grant No. BM2007204), Natural Science Fund for Colleges and Universities in Jiangsu Province (Grant No. 16KJB430005).

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Wu, J., Zhou, Z. & Peng, Z. Serrated Behaviors and Plasticity of Nb-Alloyed Cu-Based Bulk Metallic Glasses. Met. Mater. Int. 26, 1483–1490 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12540-019-00405-0

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