Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 10547127) and Experimental Center of Shenyang Normal University, China (Grant No SY-200506). Acknowledgement The authors are grateful to Dr Q. S. Zhang for assistance with the quasi-static compression experiments and sample preparation. Part of this work was performed at the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Using transmission electron microscopy and electron diffraction, we have investigated the microstructure of a Zr55Al10Ni5Cu30 bulk metallic glass under a uniaxial compression until a failure occurs at room temperature...