کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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5436088 | 1509543 | 2017 | 15 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
We investigate the mechanical behavior of 3D periodically architected metallic glass nanolattices, constructed from hollow beams of sputtered Zr-Ni-Al metallic glass. Nanolattices composed of beams with different wall thicknesses are fabricated by varying the sputter deposition time, resulting in nanolattices with median wall thicknesses of â¼88Â nm, â¼57Â nm, â¼38Â nm, â¼30Â nm, â¼20Â nm, and â¼10Â nm. Uniaxial compression experiments conducted inside a scanning electron microscope reveal a transition from brittle, catastrophic failure in thicker-walled nanolattices (median wall thicknesses of â¼88 and â¼57Â nm) to deformable, gradual, layer-by-layer collapse in thinner-walled nanolattices (median wall thicknesses of â¼38Â nm and less). As the nanolattice wall thickness is varied, large differences in deformability are manifested through the severity of strain bursts, nanolattice recovery after compression, and in-situ images obtained during compression experiments. We explain the brittle-to-deformable transition that occurs as the nanolattice wall thickness decreases in terms of the “smaller is more deformable” material size effect that arises in nano-sized metallic glasses. This work demonstrates that the nano-induced failure-suppression size effect that emerges in small-scale metallic glasses can be proliferated to larger-scale materials by the virtue of architecting.
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Journal: Acta Materialia - Volume 133, July 2017, Pages 393-407