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Metallic glasses (MGs) are known to be structurally heterogeneous at the nanometer (nm) scale. In addition, elastic property mapping has indicated the presence of at least an order-of-magnitude larger length scales, of which the origin continues to remain unknown. Here we demonstrate the existence of an elastic decorrelation length of the order of 100 nm in a Zr-based bulk MG using spatially resolved elastic property mapping via nanoindentation. Since compositional modulations sufficiently large to account for this elastic microstructure were not resolved by analytical scanning-transmission electron microscopy, chemical phase separation such as spinodal decomposition cannot explain their occurrence as previously suggested. Instead, we argue that the revealed long-range elastic modulations stem from structural variations affecting the local density. These emerge during solidification and are strongly influenced by the cooling constraints imposed on bulk MGs during the casting process.
This dataset consists of indentation data measured with a conospherical tip in a Hysitron-Bruker TI980 Nanoindenter on the surface of a <100> Silicon wafer and a polished cross-sectional cut of a Zr65Cu25Al10 bulk metallic glass.
It is associated with the following publication:
Birte Riechers, Catherine Ott, Saurabh Mohan Das, Christian H. Liebscher, Konrad Samwer, Peter M. Derlet and Robert Maass "On the elastic microstructure of bulk metallic glasses" Materials and Design xxx, (2023) 111929. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2023.111929
All experimental information can be found in this paper and in the accompanying supplementary information.
This electronic version of the data was published on the "Zenodo Data repository" found at http://zenodo.org/deposit in the community "Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM)".
The authors have copyright to these data. You are welcome to use the data for further analysis, but are requested to cite the original publication whenever use is made of the data in publications, presentations, etc.
Any questions regarding the data can be addressed to birte.riechers@bam.de who would also appreciate a note if you find the data useful.