Evaluation of a Characteristic Temperature in the Relaxation of Metallic Glass Forming Liquids

Abstract

The high-temperature viscosity of metallic glass-forming liquids is investigated by using the Bond Strength-Coordination Number Fluctuation (BSCNF) model developed by the authors. For many glass-forming liquids, a salient change in the structural relaxation is observed above the melting point. The temperature dependence of the structural relaxation exhibits a deviation from an Arrhenius-like behavior, and upon cooling it transforms to a non-Arrhenius-like one. In the present study, we show that the BSCNF model describes well the high-temperature viscosity behaviors of metallic liquids. The analysis based on the BSCNF model also enables to extract a characteristic temperature at high temperature. The results of the present study show that such characteristic temperature can be a good indicator for the evaluation of the range of the transition from the Arrhenius-like to the non-Arrhenius-like relaxation behavior.