Abstract
In this work, the mechanical properties of pulse electrodeposited amorphous nickel phosphorous (NiP), with ∼16 wt% P, was investigated for an improved understanding of the deformation behavior of metallic glasses at extreme conditions, particularly at the microscale. Upon decreasing the temperature to sub-ambient, both the yield strength and the shear band density increase. While the change of yield strength with temperature can be well explained by a cooperative shear model, the increase in the number of shear bands can be related to an increase in potential sites for activation of shear transformation zones due to the enhanced structural heterogeneity at lower temperatures. This, however, hinders the percolation of deformation units and leads to a decrease in the shear band propagation speed, from ∼50 nm/s at 295 K to ∼20 nm/s at 195 K. By testing micropillars across seven orders of magnitude in strain rate, a two-stage strain rate sensitivity is observed, from nearly negligible at the quasi-static range (m1 = 0.001 ± 0.002 for 10−3 s−1 to 10−1 s−1) to highly positive at dynamic high strain rate range (m2 = 0.02 ± 0.004 for 1 s−1 to 1000 s−1). This transition implies a change in the yield-controlling process, from the diffusion-assisted relaxation at quasi-static conditions to the rate of energy barrier crossing of shear transformation zones at high strain rates. These findings highlight several distinctive features of microscale metallic glasses, including the reduced shear band velocity at sub-ambient temperature and the two-stage strain rate sensitivity.
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