Achieving strength-ductility synergy in metallic glasses via electric current-enhanced structural fluctuations

H Ding, P Gong, W Chen, Z Peng, H Bu… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Structural applications of metallic glasses are limited by their room-temperature brittleness
and strain-softening, associated with the extreme localization of plastic flow in shear bands …

[HTML][HTML] Mechancial properties of amorphous alloys: In the framework of the microstructure heterogeneity

Q Jichao, Z Langting, T Yu, LYU Guojian, HAO Qi… - 力学进展, 2022 - lxjz.cstam.org.cn
The intrinsic structural heterogeneities of amorphous alloys are closely related to the
thermodynamics and dynamical behavior, such as relaxation/crystallization, glass transition …

Intrinsic Correlation between the Fraction of Liquidlike Zones and the Relaxation in High-Entropy Metallic Glasses

YJ Duan, LT Zhang, JC Qiao, YJ Wang, Y Yang… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
Lacking the structural information of crystalline solids, the origin of the relaxation dynamics
of metallic glasses is unclear. Here, we report the evolution of stress relaxation of high …

Connection between mechanical relaxation and equilibration kinetics in a high-entropy metallic glass

YJ Duan, M Nabahat, Y Tong, L Ortiz-Membrado… - Physical review …, 2024 - APS
The slow transition from an out-of-equilibrium glass towards a supercooled liquid is a
complex relaxation phenomenon. In this Letter, we study the correlation between …

Shear transformations in metallic glasses without excessive and predefinable defects

Z Zhang, J Ding, E Ma - Proceedings of the National …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Plastic flow in metallic glasses (MGs) is known to be mediated by shear transformations
(STs), which have been hypothesized to preferentially initiate from identifiable local “defect” …

Ultrasonic plasticity of metallic glass near room temperature

X Li, D Wei, JY Zhang, XD Liu, Z Li, TY Wang… - Applied Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) are well-known for their superb strength (1–4 GPa)(Ashby and
Greer, 2006)[1] but poor/localized plasticity when deformed at low temperatures or high …

Develo** novel amorphous alloys from the perspectives of entropy and shear bands

S Feng, ZQ Song, Y Zhang, Z Li, LM Wang… - Science China …, 2023 - Springer
Amorphous alloys are a new member of the amorphous material family. Due to the lack of
long-range ordering of atomic arrangement, amorphous alloys show unique properties …

Machine-learning inspired density-fluctuation model of local structural instability in metallic glasses

Y Wu, B Xu, X Zhang, P Guan - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Although significant progress has been made in predicting the local structural instability of
various disordered systems through the development of supervised machine learning (ML) …

A “bond-focused” local atomic environment representation for a high throughput solute interaction spectrum analysis

TP Matson, CA Schuh - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Local atomic environment (LAE) representations have enabled a deeper understanding of
complex alloy configurations, by enabling machine learning and data science approaches to …

Elastic interactions of plastic events in strained amorphous solids before yield

J Duan, YJ Wang, LH Dai, MQ Jiang - Physical Review Materials, 2023 - APS
It has been widely accepted that the plastic events of amorphous solids after mechanical
yield belong to a highly correlated avalanche state. However, whether the plastic events …