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Stabilized shear banding of ZrCu-based metallic glass composites under tensile loading

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The tensile plastic deformation behavior of ZrCu-based metallic glass composites with various crystalline volume fractions was investigated. A tensile plastic strain of more than 10 % was achieved in a metallic glass composite with a crystalline volume fraction of 32.6 %. It was found that the B2 phase can effectively activate the formation of multiple shear bands, which significantly stabilize the tensile plastic deformation of metallic glass composites. A critical volume fraction for stable tensile plastic deformation was determined. In addition to the volume fraction, the density of the stress concentration sites and the distribution of the B2 phase were also found to be key factors controlling the stable plastic deformation of ZrCu-based BMG composite.

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The work described in this paper was supported by the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. PolyU 511211), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant Nos. 50901038 and 50931005, and the Education Department of Liaoning Province of China under Grant No. 2009S053.

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  1. Advanced Manufacturing Technology Research Centre, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Fu-Fa Wu & K. C. Chan

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Liaoning University of Technology, Jinzhou, 121001, China

    Fu-Fa Wu & Shi-Tao Li

  3. Laboratory for Microstructures, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China

    Gang Wang

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Wu, FF., Chan, K.C., Li, ST. et al. Stabilized shear banding of ZrCu-based metallic glass composites under tensile loading. J Mater Sci 49, 2164–2170 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-013-7909-1

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