Foundation of bulk amorphous alloy database

During the past 10 years, research about bulk amorphous alloys has made some progress and a great quantity of data has been published. One of the main studying aims is to find a series of alloys with high glass-forming ability so they can be fabricated by conventional casting or high-pressure die casting techniques. However, traditional “trial and error’’ methods have still been used to explore new bulk amorphous alloy systems. It is time to design bulk amorphous alloy compositions by computer aided design referring to condensed state physics, computational materials science and database. A database has been assembled with a lot of documents and data about bulk amorphous alloys. It has convenient inquiry, index, and modification functions. In the database, disorder data have been systemized and regularized, and can be directly used by other computational programs. It concluded that the bulk amorphous alloys database is especially helpful to research and design bulk amorphous alloys.