Role of free volume in strain softening of as-cast and annealed bulk metallic glass

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1405-1416

  Yoo, Byung Gil ^a   Park, Kyoung Won ^b   Lee, Jae Chul ^b   Ramamurty, U ^c   Jang, Jae Il ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-PRIORI; ANNEALING CONDITIONS; ANNEALING TIME; AS CASTS; BULK METALLIC GLASS; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURES; NANOINDENTATION LOAD-DISPLACEMENT CURVES; NUMBER DENSITIES; PLASTIC CHARACTERISTICS; PLASTIC ZONE SIZES; PLASTIC ZONES; RELATIVE FLOWS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STRAIN SOFTENING; VOLUME CONTENTS; WORK SOFTENING; ZR-BASED BULK METALLIC GLASS;

AMORPHOUS ALLOYS; ANNEALING; FREE VOLUME; GLASS; GLASS TRANSITION; LIQUID METALS; NANOHARDNESS; NANOINDENTATION; PLASTICS; SHEAR BANDS; STRUCTURAL RELAXATION; YIELD STRESS; ZIRCONIUM;

METALLIC GLASS;

EID: 65349133059     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2009.0167     Document Type: Article

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