Advances in Metallic Glass Matrix Composites
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Composites".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 20336
Special Issue Editor
Interests: atomistic modeling; metallic glasses; nanoglasses; kinetics of phase transformations; vibrational properties of nanostructured materials, thin films, and laminar structures; shape memory alloys
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metallic glasses have attracted a great deal of interest due to their advantageous mechanical properties, such as high yield strength and a high elastic limit. However, the current limitations of metallic glasses are tied to their poor plasticity at room temperature. A strategy to overcome brittle failure is the development of metallic glass matrix composites (MGCs) with a crystalline second phase. Crystalline heterogeneities of various forms and phases, ranging from micrometer- to nanometer-sized inclusions, represent effective constraints on the catastrophic propagation of shear bands and promote the multiplication of shear bands. The complex and competing mechanisms of deformation that occur in the glassy matrix and crystalline inclusions allow MGCs to exhibit a high degree of plasticity.
The objective of this Special Issue is to attract contributions that combine modeling approaches with experimental works. The contribution should give a comprehensive description of the phenomena occurring in the MGC. The ultimate goal is to provide useful insights into the structure–property relationships of MGCs and clarify different aspects that are observed empirically in both experiments and simulations.
Dr. Daniel Şopu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metallic glass composites
- atomistic simulations
- finite element simulations
- microstructure
- deformation
- plasticity
- shear bands
- crystalline precipitates in metallic glass
- work hardening
- martensitic phase transformation.
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