a b s t r a c tThe b relaxation typically plays an important role in the plastic deformation of glassy materials. Compared with amorphous polymers, most of the metallic glasses do not show evident b relaxation based on mechanical spectroscopy. However, La 60 Ni 15 Al 25 bulk metallic glass (BMG) exhibits a prominent b relaxation process, which could be an ideal model alloy to investigate the correlation between the b relaxation and mechanical behavior of metallic glasses. In this work, compressive properties and stress relaxation at high temperature (below glass transition temperature T g ) were studied. Stress relaxation of La 60 Ni 15 Al 25 BMG was measured by uniaxial compressive tests and mechanical spectroscopy around both a and b relaxation temperature domain. At higher temperatures and sufficiently low strain rate, the flow behavior of the La 60 Ni 15 Al 25 BMG could be simulated by a master curve, showing that the behavior is independent of temperature, especially on the proximity of the b relaxation process. Because the existence of the b relaxation, a high value of the activation volume for the plastic deformation could be ascribed to the existence of a specific atomic arrangement in the La 60 Ni 15 Al 25 BMG. It is found that compressive stress relaxation kinetics parameter remains temperature independent below T g .