Fracture of notched ductile bulk metallic glass bars subjected to tension-torsion: experiments and simulations

There is a shortage of literature on mode III fracture behaviour of bulk metallic glasses.

In our following research paper published in Acta Materialia, we report our experiments and three-dimensional elasto-plastic finite element simulations of tension-torsion loading on notched ductile bulk metallic glass bars.

It is found that fracture toughness of this BMG is lowest in mode II among all three fracture modes.

The link to the paper is here: 'Fracture of notched ductile bulk metallic glass bars subjected to tension-torsion: experiments and simulations'.

This work has implications for design of load-bearing structures made from BMGs.

I hope you enjoy reading the paper and find it useful in your research.