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Simple phenomenological determination of contact stiffness and elastic modulus of Ce-based bulk metallic glasses through nanoindentation

  • W. H. Li*
  • , Keesam Shin
  • , C. G. Lee
  • , B. C. Wei
  • , T. H. Zhang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Anhui University of Technology
  • Changwon National University
  • CAS - Institute of Mechanics

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Abstract

The viscoelastic deformation of Ce-based bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) with low glass transition temperature is investigated at room temperature. Contact stiffness and elastic modulus of Ce-based BMGs cannot be derived using the conventional Oliver-Pharr method [W. C. Oliver and G. M. Pharr, J. Mater. Res. 7, 1564 (1992)]. The present work shows that the time dependent displacement of unloading segments can be described well by a generalized Kelvin model. Thus, a modified Oliver-Pharr method is proposed to evaluate the contact stiffness and elastic modulus, which does, in fact, reproduce the values obtained via uniaxial compression tests.

Original languageEnglish
Article number171928
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume90
Issue number17
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes

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