| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgements | p. xiii |
| Contributing Authors | p. xv |
| Development and Applications of Late Transition Metal Bulk Metallic Glasses | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Features of Alloy Components in LTM-Based BMGs | p. 2 |
| Formation and Fundamental Properties of Fe- and Co-Based BMGs in (Fe,Co,Ni)-(B,Si)-Nb Systems | p. 6 |
| Ni-and Cu-Based BMGs | p. 13 |
| Pd-and Pt-Based BMGs | p. 16 |
| Correlations among Fundamental Properties of LTM-Based BMGs | p. 16 |
| Applications | p. 18 |
| Conclusions | p. 22 |
| Atomistic Theory of Metallic Liquids and Glasses | p. 27 |
| Introduction | p. 27 |
| Free-Volume Theory | p. 29 |
| Describing the Structure | p. 32 |
| Local Density Fluctuation and Free-Volume | p. 37 |
| Local Topological Instability and the Glass Transition | p. 41 |
| Deformation of Metallic Glasses | p. 47 |
| Glass Formability | p. 51 |
| Conclusions | p. 52 |
| Modeling: The Role of Atomistic Simulations | p. 57 |
| Introduction | p. 57 |
| Atomistic Simulations | p. 59 |
| Limitations | p. 60 |
| Simulation models | p. 61 |
| Nucleation Vs. Glass Transition | p. 65 |
| Properties of the Super-Cooled Liquid | p. 67 |
| Mechanical Properties and Structure | p. 72 |
| Conclusions | p. 74 |
| Evaluation of Glass-Forming Ability | p. 87 |
| Introduction | p. 87 |
| Brief Introduction of Previous Well-Known GFA Parameters | p. 88 |
| The [gamma] Indicator and its Reliability | p. 89 |
| Summary of other Recently Developed GFA Criteria/Indicators | p. 98 |
| Limitations of all the Newly Developed GFA Parameters | p. 103 |
| Prospective Directions | p. 108 |
| Microstructure | p. 117 |
| Introduction | p. 117 |
| Amorphous and Crystalline Structures | p. 118 |
| Differential Scanning Calorimetry | p. 120 |
| X-Ray Diffraction | p. 121 |
| Electron Microscopy | p. 125 |
| Scanning electron microscopy | p. 125 |
| Transmission electron microscopy | p. 127 |
| High-resolution electron microscopy | p. 127 |
| Fluctuation electron microscopy | p. 128 |
| Field Ion Microscopy | p. 130 |
| Atom Probe Tomography | p. 132 |
| Scattering Techniques | p. 134 |
| Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy | p. 136 |
| Summary | p. 139 |
| Deformation Behavior | p. 147 |
| Introduction | p. 147 |
| Inhomogeneous Deformation | p. 147 |
| Yielding Criterion: Von Mises Vs. Mohr-Coulomb | p. 148 |
| Dynamic Deformation and Strain Rate Effect | p. 149 |
| Strain Hardening | p. 151 |
| Shear Band Nucleation and Propagation | p. 152 |
| Shear Band Temperatures | p. 153 |
| Strength | p. 156 |
| Structure of Shear Band | p. 157 |
| Plasticity-Poisson's Ratio and Solidity Index | p. 159 |
| BMG Composites - Ductilization and Toughening | p. 160 |
| Homogeneous Deformation | p. 161 |
| Fatigue and Fracture Behavior | p. 169 |
| Introduction | p. 169 |
| Definitions | p. 169 |
| Stress-life (S-N) curve | p. 170 |
| Fatigue Testing | p. 171 |
| High-Cycle Fatigue | p. 172 |
| Stress-life behavior | p. 172 |
| Effect of environment | p. 173 |
| Effect of frequency | p. 173 |
| Effect of temperature | p. 174 |
| Effect of mean stress | p. 175 |
| Effect of microstructure | p. 175 |
| Effect of composition | p. 177 |
| Effect of surface finish | p. 178 |
| Effect of test method | p. 179 |
| Comparison with other materials | p. 180 |
| Fatigue-Crack Growth | p. 185 |
| Fatigue-crack-growth behavior | p. 185 |
| Temperature effects | p. 188 |
| Characterization | p. 190 |
| Fractured surface | p. 190 |
| In situ technique | p. 191 |
| Mechanism and Modeling | p. 192 |
| Crack initiation | p. 192 |
| Crack propagation | p. 194 |
| Fracture Toughness | p. 194 |
| Unresolved Issues | p. 198 |
| Conclusions | p. 199 |
| Corrosion Behavior | p. 205 |
| Introduction | p. 205 |
| Basics of Aqueous Corrosion | p. 206 |
| Pit-initiation mechanisms | p. 209 |
| Corrosion of Bulk Metallic Glasses | p. 209 |
| Cu-based BMGs | p. 210 |
| Effects of composition | p. 210 |
| Effects of test environment | p. 212 |
| Fe-based BMGs | p. 212 |
| Effects of composition | p. 213 |
| Effects of test environment | p. 214 |
| Ni-based BMGs | p. 215 |
| Effects of composition | p. 215 |
| Effects of test environment | p. 217 |
| Zr-based BMGs | p. 217 |
| Effects of composition | p. 219 |
| Effects of test environment | p. 220 |
| Other BMG systems | p. 222 |
| Corrosion of BMGs in relation to crystalline alloys | p. 223 |
| Summary | p. 224 |
| Corrosion Mechanisms in BMGS | p. 225 |
| General corrosion | p. 225 |
| Pitting corrosion | p. 226 |
| Concluding Remarks | p. 227 |
| Index | p. 235 |
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