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Direct observations on the evolution of shear bands into cracks in metallic glass

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Rui T. Qu ,
Fufa Wu ,
Zhe-Feng Zhang  and
Jurgen Eckert
Rui T. Qu
Affiliation:
Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
Fufa Wu
Affiliation:
Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China; and School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Liaoning University of Technology, Jinzhou 121001, People’s Republic China
Zhe-Feng Zhang*
Affiliation:
Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
Jurgen Eckert*
Affiliation:
IFW Dresden, Institute for Complex Materials, D-01171 Dresden, Germany
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a) Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: zhfzhang@imr.ac.cn
b) This author was an editor of this journal during the review and decision stage. For the JMR policy on review and publication of manuscripts authored by editors, please refer to http://www.mrs.org/jmr_policy
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Abstract

The evolution of shear bands (SBs) into cracks was observed by using a high-resolution scanning electron microscope in Zr59Cu20Al10Ni8Ti3 metallic glassy samples after a small punch test with different strain rates. As shear strain increased along a radial SB, three distinctive regions of morphologies were found (I) bonded SB, (II) microcrack plus bonded SB, and (III) full crack. In region II with moderate shear strain, some glassy “extrusions” were also observed. Once shear offset increases to a critical value, the SB becomes a full crack. For two different SBs in one specimen, the critical shear offsets maintain approximately the same value, which sheds light on the critical shear failure condition of metallic glass. The critical shear offset was also found to be sensitive to the strain rate and a higher strain rate led to less critical shear offset. It is suggested that the structure evolution and heat evolution within a shearing SB should be responsible for the previous results.

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 24 , Issue 10 , October 2009 , pp. 3130 - 3135
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2009

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