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Methods of Ex Situ and In Situ Investigations of Structural Transformations: The Case of Crystallization of Metallic Glasses
Published on: June 7, 2018
Scaling behavior and complexity of plastic deformation for a bulk metallic glass at cryogenic temperatures
Cun Chen1, Jingli Ren1, Gang Wang2
1School of Mathematics and Statistics, Zhengzhou University, 100 Science Road, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
Abstract:
We explore the scaling behavior and complexity in the shear-branching process during the compressive deformation of a bulk metallic glass Zr(64.13)Cu(15.75)Al(10)Ni(10.12) (at. %) at cryogenic temperatures. The fractal dimension of the stress rate signal ranges from 1.22 to 1.72 with decreasing temperature and a larger shear-branching rate occurs at lower temperature. A stochastic model is introduced for the shear-branching process. In particular, at a temperature of 213K, the shear-branching process evolves as a self-similar random process. In addition, the complexity of the stress rate signal conforms to the larger activation energy of the shear transformation zone at lower temperatures.
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