Super-plasticity of Zr<Subscript>64.80</Subscript>Cu<Subscript>14.85</Subscript>Ni<Subscript>10.35</Subscript>Al<Subscript>10</Subscript> bulk metallic glass at room temperature

Generally, bulk metallic glasses （BMGs） exhibit a very limited plastic deformation under a compression load at room temperature, often less than 2% before fracturing. In this letter, through an appropriate choice of BMGs＇ composition, an amorphous rod of Zr64.80Cu14.85Ni10.35Al10 with a diameter of 2 mm was prepared by using copper mold suction casting. X-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry were utilized to determine its structure and thermal stability, and the uniaxial compression test was adopted to study its plastic deformation behavior at room temperature simultaneously. The results showed that the glass transition temperature and onset temperature of the exothermic reaction of the amorphous rod were 646 and 750 K, respectively, and its micro-hardness was 594.7 Hv. During compression, when the engineering strain and engineering stress arrived at 9.05% and 1732 MPa, respectively, i.e., the true strain and true stress reached 9.42% and 1560 MPa, respectively, the amorphous rod started to yield. After yielding, with the increase of load, the strain increased and the glass rod ulti- mately were compressed into flake-like form. Although the maximum engineering strain was larger than 70%, i.e., the maximum true strain exceeded by 120%, the amorphous specimen was not fractured, indicating that it has super-plasticity at room temperature. Through the appropriate choice of composition and optimization of the technological process, flexible BMG with super-plasticity at room temperature could be produced.     

纳米线高应变率拉伸超塑性

应用分子动力学方法,采用嵌入势EAM与Buckingham势,对金属Cu、半导体化合物CuInSe2和陶瓷化合物MgO纳米线进行拉伸模拟,考察其拉伸应力-应变曲线,并分析拉伸过程中的结构变化.发现当以高于临界应变率的速率对纳米线进行拉伸时,纳米线由脆性断裂向韧性断裂转变,且其延伸率可以超过100%,表现出超塑性的特性,而以较低应变率拉伸时,纳米线仍然表现为脆性断裂,这表明纳米线材料的超塑性对于应变率高度敏感.通过观察纳米线在拉伸过程中的结构变化,发现高应变率拉伸时由于CuInSe2与Cu纳米线晶体结构发生非晶化,在这一转变过程中大量能量被吸收,因而导致其塑性变好.而MgO纳米线则发生面心立方结构向环形结构的相变,相变的发生同样导致了能量的吸收,从而使其塑性大大改善.