J. Mater. Sci. Technol. ›› 2022, Vol. 121: 99-104.DOI: 10.1016/j.jmst.2021.12.056

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Data-driven glass-forming ability criterion for bulk amorphous metals with data augmentation

Jie Xionga,*(), Tong-Yi Zhangb,c,*()   

  1. aSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen 518000, China
    bbHong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511400, China
    ccMaterial Genome Institute, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
  • Received:2021-10-27 Revised:2021-12-07 Accepted:2021-12-09 Published:2022-09-10 Online:2022-03-15
  • Contact: Jie Xiong,Tong-Yi Zhang
  • About author:zhangty@shu.edu.cn (T.-Y.Zhang).
    *Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511400, China. E-mail addresses: george-jie.xiong@connect.polyu.hk (J. Xiong),

Abstract:

A data augmentation technique is employed in the current work on a training dataset of 610 bulk metallic glasses (BMGs), which are randomly selected from 762 collected data. An ensemble machine learning (ML) model is developed on augmented training dataset and tested by the rest 152 data. The result shows that ML model has the ability to predict the maximal diameter Dmax of BMGs more accurate than all reported ML models. In addition, the novel ML model gives the glass forming ability (GFA) rules: average atomic radius ranging from 140 pm to 165 pm, the value of $\frac{{{T}_{\text{g}}}{{T}_{\text{x}}}}{\left( {{T}_{\text{l}}}-{{T}_{\text{g}}} \right)\left( {{T}_{\text{l}}}-{{T}_{\text{x}}} \right)}$ being higher than 2.5, the entropy of mixing being higher than 10 J/K/mol, and the enthalpy of mixing ranging from -32 kJ/mol to -26 kJ/mol. ML model is interpretative, thereby deepening the understanding of GFA.

Key words: Materials informatics, Glass-forming ability, Data augmentation, Model interpretation, Meta-ensemble model