Temperature dependence of micro-deformation behavior of the porous tungsten/Zr-based metallic glass composite

The effect of temperature on the micro-deformation behavior of the porous tungsten/Zr-based metallic glass composite was investigated during cyclic compression by synchrotron based in-situ high-energy X-ray diffraction (HEXRD) and finite element modeling (FEM). Both the metallic glass phase and the tungsten phase remained elastic in the first loading at different temperatures. The metallic glass phase also exhibits “work hardening” behavior, which is attributed to the crystallization of the metallic glass phase during deformation at high temperature. The yield strength of the tungsten phase during the second loading decreased with the increase of temperature while remained almost equal in the third loading. Both the temperature and the pre-deformation from the cyclic loading have great influence on the work hardening behavior of the tungsten phase. The influence of the pre-deformation after the second cyclic loading is greater than the influence of the temperature during the third loading.