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Distinctive Slow β Relaxation and Its Impact on Mechanical Property of LaCe Based Bulk Metallic Glasses

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The slow β relaxation which occurring at temperatures far below glass transition temperature, typically playing important roles in the plastic deformation behavior of metallic glasses. Compared with polymer glasses, most of the metallic glasses do not exhibit obvious β relaxation based on dynamic mechanical analysis. In the current work, prominent β relaxation behaviors of a series (LaxCe100−x) Al10Co25 (x = 50, 60, 70, 80) bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) at low temperature are observed using dynamic mechanical analysis. Compared with other BMGs, the LaCe based BMGs show a pronounced β relaxation peak and relative low peak temperature, the activation energy of the β relaxation based on Arrhenius equation are calculated around 79.3 kJ/mol to 86.4 kJ/mol, which obey an empirical rule that Eβ ≈ (26 ± 4) RTg, with the coefficient of 23. Experimental results from room temperature compression tests for the LaCe based BMGs indicate that low temperature activated β relaxation behaviors facilitate the good plasticity of the LaCe based BMGs.

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The authors are grateful for the support of the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, China (Grant No. ZR2017BEM017), and a Project of Shandong Province Higher Educational Science and Technology Program (Grant No. J18KA027), and science foundation for the excellent youth scholars of Shandong Province of China (Grant No. ZR2016JL019). We thank B. Zhang’s group (Institute of Amorphous Matter Science, HFUT) for providing DMA tests.

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    Xiao Cui, Xiao-jun Meng, Bing-chuan Bian & Ren-gao Zhao

  2. College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, 271018, China

    Jing Guo

  3. Institute of Liquid/Solid Metal Processing, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, China

    Qi-dong Zhang, Yu-bai Ma & Fang-qiu Zu

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Cui, X., Guo, J., Zhang, Qd. et al. Distinctive Slow β Relaxation and Its Impact on Mechanical Property of LaCe Based Bulk Metallic Glasses. Met. Mater. Int. 26, 1491–1497 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12540-019-00407-y

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