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Pressure-dependent flow behavior of Zr_(41.2)Ti_(13.8)Cu_(12.5)Ni_(10)Be_(22.5) bulk metallic glass
An experimental study of the inelastic deformation of bulk metallic glass Zr_(41.2)Ti_(13.8)Cu_(12.5)Ni_(10)Be_(22.5) under multiaxial compression using a confining sleeve technique is presented. In contrast to the catastrophic shear failure (brittle) in uniaxial compression, the metallic glass exhibited large inelastic deformation of more than 10% under confinement, demonstrating the nature of ductile deformation under constrained conditions in spite of the long-range disordered characteristic of the material. It was found that the metallic glass followed a pressure (p) dependent Tresca criterion τ = τ0 + βp, and the coefficient of the pressure dependence β was 0.17. Multiple parallel shear bands oriented at 45° to the loading direction were observed on the surfaces of the deformed specimens and were responsible for the overall inelastic deformation
Toward a unified interpretation of quark and lepton mixing from flavor and CP symmetries
We discussed the scenario that a discrete flavor group combined with CP
symmetry is broken to in both neutrino and charged lepton
sectors. All lepton mixing angles and CP violation phases are predicted to
depend on two free parameters and varying in the
range of . As an example, we comprehensively study the lepton mixing
patterns which can be derived from the flavor group and CP
symmetry. Three kinds of phenomenologically viable lepton mixing matrices are
obtained up to row and column permutations. We further extend this approach to
the quark sector. The precisely measured quark mixing angles and CP invariant
can be accommodated for certain values of the free parameters and
. A simultaneous description of quark and lepton flavor mixing
structures can be achieved from a common flavor group and CP,
and accordingly the smallest value of the group index is .Comment: 40 pages, 8 figure
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