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Published June 2015 | Supplemental Material
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On the variability in fracture toughness of 'ductile' bulk metallic glasses

Abstract

The mode I fracture toughness, K_(Ic), of ductile bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) exhibits a high degree of specimen-to-specimen variability. By conducting fracture experiments in modes I and II, we demonstrate that the observed high variability in mode I, vis-à-vis mode II, is a result of highly variable propensity for the conversion of shear bands into cracks in mode I whereas in mode II, crack growth direction is fixed. Thus, the measured variability in K_(Ic) is intrinsic to the nature of BMGs.

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© 2015 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Received 4 February 2015; accepted 15 February 2015; Available online 27 February 2015.

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