Correlation between strain rate sensitivity and α relaxation of metallic glasses

Anelastic Relaxation of Metallic Glasses

Correlation between β relaxation and self-diffusion of the smallest constituting atoms in metallic glasses.

In multicomponent metallic glasses, we demonstrate that diffusion and secondary (β) relaxation are closely related. The diffusion motion of the smallest constituting atoms takes place within the temperature and time regimes where the β relaxations are activated, and, in particular, the two processes have similar activation energies. We suggest cooperative stringlike atomic motion plays an impor...

Relaxation of bulk metallic glasses studied by mechanical spectroscopy.

The relaxational dynamics in metallic glasses (MGs) is investigated by using mechanical spectroscopy. The spectra show that in MGs there are two relaxations: (i) the α relaxation, linked to the glass transition, as observed in other classes of amorphous materials; and (ii) the β relaxation, well observed below the glass transition, with an intensity strongly dependent on the MG composition, the...

Structural relaxation of Ti-based bulk metallic glasses

The enthalpy relaxation behavior of Ti41.5Cu37.5Ni7.5Zr2.5Hf5Sn5Si1 bulk metallic glass (BMG) was investigated in this study. It is found that relaxation behavior follows the general characteristics for amorphous materials: the annealing time dependence of recovery enthalpy follows a stretched exponential function with the mean relaxation time obeying an Arrhenius law. In addition, the equilibr...

Structural relaxation kinetics defines embrittlement in metallic glasses

Article history: Received 5 December 2017 Received in revised form 22 January 2018 Accepted 23 January 2018 Available online xxxx Structural relaxation during isothermal annealing, quantified by enthalpy recovery of Zr44Ti11Cu10Ni10Be25 towards its metastable equilibrium and correlation to embrittlement, quantified through fracture toughness, KQ, is studied. Enthalpy relaxation over time obeys ...