Here we report a transition in superelastic hysteresis loop from sharp with plateau to smooth without plateau for a Ni55−xCoxFe18Ga27 (x = 0-12) alloy system with increasing Co substituting for Ni up to 10 at.%. With the Co content reaching 10 at.%, the alloy exhibits the obvious characteristic of the strain glass transition, i.e., the frequency-dependent shift in temperature of the internal friction peak and frequency-dependent dip temperature, Tg, of the storage modulus following the Vogel-Fulcher relationship. The high-energy X-ray diffraction provides the direct evidence that the smooth hysteresis loops stem from a finite avalanche martensite transformation mode, inducing a long-range inhomogeneous stress field in the remained parent phase during deformation.
In situ high-energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction experiments and micromechanics-based finite element simulations have been conducted to examine the lattice-strain evolution in metallicglass-matrix composites (MGMCs) with dendritic crystalline phases dispersed in the metallicglass matrix. Significant plastic deformation can be observed prior to failure from the macroscopic stress-strain curves in these MGMCs. The entire lattice-strain evolution curves can be divided into elastic-elastic (denoting deformation behavior of matrix and inclusion, respectively), elastic-plastic, and plastic-plastic stages. Characteristics of these three stages are governed by the constitutive laws of the two phases (modeled by free-volume theory and crystal plasticity) and geometric information (crystalline phase morphology and distribution). The load-partitioning mechanisms have been revealed among various crystalline orientations and between the two phases, as determined by slip strain fields in crystalline phase and by strain localizations in matrix. Implications on ductility enhancement of MGMCs are also discussed.
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