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The influence of in situ formed precipitates on the plasticity of Fe-Nb-B-Cu bulk metallic glasses

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Improved room temperature plasticity was achieved by microalloying Cu in a series of (Fe71Nb6B23)100−xCux (x = 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, and 1) glass matrix alloys with tunable size and volume fraction of precipitates composed of α-Fe and Fe23B6 phases. When ∼10-nm-sized nano-scale precipitates are formed with a size comparable to the shear bandwidth by controlling the added content of Cu, the (Fe71Nb6B23)99.5Cu0.5 alloy exhibits a maximum plastic strain of 4.3 ± 0.8% with pronounced multiple shear banding. A further increase in the size of the precipitates up to micrometer scale results in catastrophic fracture accompanied with irregular cracks, revealing that the fracture mechanism of the different alloys is controlled by the precipitate size.

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This work was supported by the Defense Acquisition Program Administration and the Agency for Defense Development, the Global Research Laboratory Program of the Korea Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Center for Advanced Materials Processing of the 21st Century Frontier R&D Program of the Korea Ministry of Knowledge Economy. Stimulating discussions with E. Fleury, J.H. Han, K.B. Kim, S. Pauly, S. Scudino, U. Kühn, and W.T. Kim are gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Institute for Complex Materials, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, D-01171, Dresden, Germany

    Jin Man Park, Mihai Stoica, Norbert Mattern & Jürgen Eckert

  2. Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Center for Non-Crystalline Materials, Yonsei University, Seoul, 120-749, Korea

    Jin Man Park & Do Hyang Kim

  3. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, 100191, Beijing, China

    Ran Li

  4. Institute of Materials Science, Dresden University of Technology, D-01062, Dresden, Germany

    Jürgen Eckert

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Park, J.M., Kim, D.H., Stoica, M. et al. The influence of in situ formed precipitates on the plasticity of Fe-Nb-B-Cu bulk metallic glasses. Journal of Materials Research 26, 2080–2086 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2011.202

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