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Published October 26, 2001 | public
Journal Article

Study of mechanical deformation in bulk metallic glass through instrumented indentation

Abstract

Instrumented sharp indentation experiments at the nano- and micro-length scales were carried out in an attempt to quantify the deformation characteristics of Vitreloy 1 bulk metallic glass. The experiments were accompanied by detailed three-dimensional finite element simulations of instrumented indentation to formulate an overall constitutive response. By matching the experimentally observed continuous indentation results with the finite element predictions, a general Mohr–Coulomb type constitutive description was extracted to capture the dependence of multiaxial deformation on both shear stresses and normal stresses. This constitutive response is able to provide accurate predictions of the evolution of shear bands seen in uniaxial compression tests. Constrained deformation of the material around the indenter results in incomplete circular patterns of shear bands whose location, shape and size are also captured well by the numerical simulations. The analysis is also able to predict the extent of material pile-up observed around the indenter. The surface deformation features are also consistent with mechanisms such as localized shear flow, serrated yielding and adiabatic heating, which are observed during macroscopic mechanical tests.

Additional Information

© 2001 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. Received 14 March 2001; accepted 5 July 2001. The authors are grateful to T.-G. Nieh, B.W. Choi, K.J. Van Vliet, J. Smith and A. Gouldstone for valuable experimental assistance, and to W.L. Johnson and J. Lu for providing the specimens. Useful discussions with F. Spaepen are also gratefully acknowledged. GR would like to thank the Army Research Office and the NSF MRSEC program for the support of his research in bulk metallic glasses (BMG).

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