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Understanding the Effect of Oxygen on the Glass-Forming Ability of Zr55Cu55Al9Be9 Bulk Metallic Glass by ab initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations
- Source :
- Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. 52:2501-2511
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.
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Abstract
- Oxygen (O) is an inevitable impurity in bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) and its influence over the glass-forming ability (GFA) of BMGs is a longstanding controversy. The present ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations indicate that the GFA decreases upon introducing 0.78 at. pct O in the amorphous Zr55Cu55Al9Be9 (at. pct), while examining the evolution of atomic configurations and kinetic properties in BMGs. This study includes a comprehensive analysis using pair correlation function (PCF), bond pair analysis (BPA), and Voronoi polyhedra construction. It is concluded that the incorporation of O leads to a decline in the closely packed icosahedral polyhedrons, where the atom O is coordinated with Be and Zr in the first nearest shell to form the O-centered clusters with enhanced ordering. Mean square displacement (MSD) analysis also shows that the trace O could induce remarkable acceleration of atomic mobility, therefore increasing crystallization tendency of the Zr55Cu55Al9Be9 alloy. The present results illuminate the role of O in the metallic glass-forming process and reveal the underlying role of O in the GFA of the Zr-Cu amorphous alloys.
- Subjects :
- Amorphous metal
Materials science
Icosahedral symmetry
Metallurgy
Alloy
Metals and Alloys
engineering.material
Condensed Matter Physics
Radial distribution function
law.invention
Amorphous solid
Mean squared displacement
Mechanics of Materials
law
Impurity
Chemical physics
engineering
Crystallization
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15431940 and 10735623
- Volume :
- 52
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........e41913a612a4311b9e70e704c0b465e4