Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLASTICITY
Volume 157, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijplas.2022.103402
Keywords
Metallic glass; Rejuvenation; Mechanical cycling; beta relaxation; Anelasticity
Funding
- NSFC [51971178, 12072344]
- Natural Science Basic Research Plan for Distinguished Young Scholars in Shaanxi Province [2021JC-12]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [D5000220034]
- Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing [cstc2020jcyj-jqX0001]
- MICINN [PID2020-112975GB-I00]
- Generalitat de Catalunya [2017SGR0042]
- Innovation Foundation for Doctor Dissertation of Northwestern Polytechnical University [CX2021015]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Research Grant Council (RGC)
- Hong Kong government [CityU11200719, CityU11213118]
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This study proposes a mechanical cycling method as an alternative strategy for structural rejuvenation in metallic glasses. The results demonstrate that mechanical cycling wakes up frozen flow defects, accelerates creep, and enhances beta relaxation in the material. This handy anti-aging methodology provides an alternative pathway to optimize the mechanical properties of metallic glasses and contributes to a better understanding of the structure-property relationship in amorphous materials.
Structural rejuvenation is an effective measure to optimize the mechanical properties of metallic glasses (MGs). Sophisticated solutions to rejuvenation include thermal cycling, laser shocking, and multiaxial stress loading. Here, we propose an easy-to-operate mechanical cycling as an alternative strategy to tailor the mechanical relaxation, deformation, and structural heterogeneity of MGs. Structural rejuvenation in a La-based MG is achieved via mechanical cycling even at very few cycles (10(2) tension load cycles) and low frequencies (10(-3) Hz). The results manifest intuitively the competition between structural relaxation and rejuvenation, which constitutes the structural evolution in MGs. A theoretical model is constructed which reveals a scenario that mechanical cycling wakes up frozen flow defect, accelerating creep and, thus, enhancing the beta relaxation in MGs. Therefore, this handy anti-ageing methodology provides an alternative pathway to optimize the mechanical properties of MGs. It also contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the structure-property relationship in amorphous materials, especially with regard to the correlation between structural rejuvenation and relaxation behavior in such topologically disordered materials.
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