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Microstructure-Property Optimization in Metallic Glasses

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The demands on materials increase rapidly. To meet these demands, more and more complex microstructures and microstructural architectures are used. However, currently used strategies to develop increasingly complex structures are unsuited to create tomorrow’s materials. For example, the main challenge in determining micro structure–property relationships is that any kind of individual variation in feature properties inevitably changes other properties. This is due to the fabrication methods, which do not permit completely independently vary just one microstructure feature. As an example, if one attempts to alter, for instance, the spacing of a phase in a microstructure, at the same time, length, volume, composition, dispersity, and density of this phase will also change because all the properties are interconnected. This contribution consists of an in-depth study of investigating microstructure-property relationships in bulk metallic glasses using a novel quantitative approach by which influence of the second phase features on mechanical properties can be independently and systematically analyzed. We adopted this strategy to evaluate and optimize the elastic and plastic deformation, as well as the overall toughness of cellular honeycombs under in-plane compression and porous heterostructures under uniaxial tension.

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Sarac, B. (2015). General Introduction. In: Microstructure-Property Optimization in Metallic Glasses. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13033-0_1

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