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High strain rate sensitivity of hardness in Ti-Zr-Hf-Be-(Cu/Ni) high entropy bulk metallic glasses

  • Shaofan Zhao
  • , Haibin Wang
  • , Jialun Gu
  • , Nan Guo
  • , Ling Shao
  • , Yingqi Zhang
  • , Kefu Yao
  • , Na Chen
  • Qian Xuesen Laboratory of Space Technology
  • Beijing University of Technology
  • Tsinghua University
  • Beihang University
  • Key Lab of the Ministry of Education for Process Control and Efficiency Egineering

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Abstract

Nanoindentation tests on the Ti20Zr20Hf20Be20(Cu20-xNix) (x = 0, 12.5, 20 at.%) high entropy bulk metallic glasses (HE-BMGs) indicate both their average hardness and moduli show a significant loading strain rate-dependent behaviour. In special, the strain rate sensitivity of hardness measured for the prepared TiZrHfBeNi HE-BMG is up to 0.056 which is the highest value reported for BMGs so far. Such high strain rate sensitivity of hardness is likely due to the high-entropy effect, which makes the amorphous structure more homogeneous. In addition, the high entropy coupled with amorphous structure manifests as small shear transformation zone (STZ) volumes that could make the shear bands hard to be initiated.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)312-317
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Alloys and Compounds
Volume742
DOIs
StatePublished - 25 Apr 2018
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • High entropy bulk metallic glasses
  • Nanoindentation
  • Strain rate sensitivity

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