Effect of frame stiffness on the deformation behavior of bulk metallic glass

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It has been shown that the stability of shear banding and plasticity of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) can be strongly influenced by the machine stiffness. Here, we demonstrated that the practice of adding a frame parallel to the sample is quantitatively equivalent to increasing the machine stiffness by the frame stiffness. A series of carefully designed experiments were conducted to verify such an effect, showing controllably enhanced plasticity of BMG samples.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore, 117576, Singapore, Singapore

    Z. Han & Y. Li

  2. Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 02912, USA

    H. J. Gao

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Han, Z., Li, Y. & Gao, H.J. Effect of frame stiffness on the deformation behavior of bulk metallic glass. Journal of Materials Research 25, 1958–1962 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.2010.0256

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