摘要
Developing ductile bulk metallic glasses(BMGs)can benefit from an in-depth understanding of the structure-property relation during plastic deformation.However,endowing BMGs with tensile ductility in BMGs needs to reveal the response of critical structure units during deformation.Here,we report the experimental results of an in-situ synchrotron high-energy X-ray study of a Zr-based BMG under uniaxial tension after preprocessing by canning compression of the three-dimensional compressive stress state.It is revealed that the canning-compressed BMG(CC-BMG)sample has better tensile ductility and higher ultimate strength than the as-cast sample,which possesses heterogeneous and loosely packed local struc-tures on medium-range scales.The experimental results revealed two stages of plastic deformation in the CC-BMGs compared with one stage of plastic deformation in the as-cast BMG.Moreover,the shift in the first sharp diffraction peak along the tension direction for the canning-compressed sample is substan-tially more pronounced than that of the as-cast sample.Furthermore,the real-space analysis illustrates a competition mechanism between the 2-atom and 3-atom connection modes on medium-range order during the plastic deformation of the CC-BMG.Additionally,the ordering on the medium-range scale de-creases in the first plastic deformation stage but increases in the second plastic deformation stage.There-fore,a structural crossover phenomenon occurs in the CC-BMG during plastic deformation.Our results demonstrate a structure-property correlation for the CC-BMGs of heterogeneous medium-range ordered structures,which may be beneficial for endowing BMGs with ductility based on medium-range order engineering techniques.
基金
the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2021YFB3802800)
the National Natural Sci-ence Foundation of China(Nos.52222104,12261160364,51871120 and 51520105001)
the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.BK20200019)
Si Lan acknowledges the support by Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Neutron Scat-tering Science and Technology and Shenzhen Science and Technol-ogy Innovation Commission(No.JCYJ20200109105618137)
the resources of the China Spallation Neutron Source located in Dongguan,China,and the Advanced Photon Source,a US Department of Energy(DOE)Office of Science User Facility op-erated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Labora-tory under Contract No.DE-AC02-06CH11357
the US DOE Office of Science,Office of Basic Energy Sciences.The neutron scattering experiments carried out at the Spallation Neutron Source were sponsored by the Scientific User Facilities Di-vision,Office of Basic Energy Sciences,U.S.Department of Energy,under Contract No.DE-AC05-00OR22725 with Oak Ridge National Laboratory.