Microstructure and Microhardness in Current Annealed Fe65.5Cr4Mo4Ga4P12C5B5.5 Bulk Metallic Glass

2007 ◽  
Vol 555 ◽  
pp. 521-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Mitrović ◽  
B. Čukić ◽  
Branka Jordović ◽  
Stefan Roth ◽  
M. Stoica
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Stability ◽  
Glass Transition ◽  
Transition Temperature ◽  
Glass Transition Temperature ◽  
Amorphous State ◽  
Supercooled Liquid ◽  
Supercooled Liquid Region ◽  
Nominal Composition ◽  
Liquid Region ◽  
Scanning Calorimetry

The rods of Fe-based bulk metallic glasses with the nominal composition Fe65.5Cr4Mo4Ga4P12C5B5.5 were cast by melt injection into 1.5 and 1.8 mm diameter copper molds. The thermal stability, microstructure and crystallization behavior were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry, optical micrography and X-ray diffraction, respectively. The wide supercooled liquid region between crystallization temperature (Tx) and glass transition temperature (Tg) in the as-cast state Tx=Tx-Tg=60 K, as well as the high value of reduced glass transition temperature Trg=Tg/Tl=0.567 (Tl is liquidus temperature) approves enhanced thermal stability of the alloy against crystallization. In the as-cast “XRD-amorphous” state, microhardness HV1=742 was observed. Multistep current annealing thermal treatments were performed for structural relaxation. After applying high enough heating power per square area (PS ≥ 6 W/cm2), intensive crystallization of the samples characterized by appearance of several iron-metalloid compounds (Fe5C2, Fe3Ga4, Fe63Mo37 and Mo12Fe22C10) was observed. The microstructure changes after crystallization bring about differences in the microhardness values. The areas of still present amorphous matrix are with increased value HV1=876, but a remarkable decrease to HV1=323 was observed in precipitated crystallized zone that propagate along inner part of cylinders.

scholarly journals Effects of Annealing on Enthalpy Recovery and Nanomechanical Behaviors of a La-Based Bulk Metallic Glass

Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 579
Author(s):  
Ting Shi ◽  
Lanping Huang ◽  
Song Li
Keyword(s):  
Glass Transition ◽  
Transition Temperature ◽  
Glass Transition Temperature ◽  
Metallic Glass ◽  
Bulk Metallic Glass ◽  
Structural Relaxation ◽  
Supercooled Liquid ◽  
Supercooled Liquid Region ◽  
Liquid Region ◽  
Nanoindentation Measurement

Structural relaxation and nanomechanical behaviors of La65Al14Ni5Co5Cu9.2Ag1.8 bulk metallic glass (BMG) with a low glass transition temperature during annealing have been investigated by calorimetry and nanoindentation measurement. The enthalpy release of this metallic glass is deduced by annealing near glass transition. When annealed below glass transition temperature for 5 min, the recovered enthalpy increases with annealing temperature and reaches the maximum value at 403 K. After annealed in supercooled liquid region, the recovered enthalpy obviously decreases. For a given annealing at 393 K, the relaxation behaviors of La-based BMG can be well described by the Kohlrausch-Williams-Watts (KWW) function. The hardness, Young’s modulus, and serrated flow are sensitive to structural relaxation of this metallic glass, which can be well explained by the theory of solid-like region and liquid-like region. The decrease of ductility and the enhancement of homogeneity can be ascribed to the transformation from liquid-like region into solid-like region and the reduction of the shear transition zone (STZ).

Hot pressing and characterizations of mechanically alloyed Zr52Al6Ni8Cu14W20 glassy powders.

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 976-987 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sherif El-Eskandarany ◽  
A. Inoue
Keyword(s):  
Solid Solution ◽  
Glass Transition ◽  
Transition Temperature ◽  
Glass Transition Temperature ◽  
Supercooled Liquid ◽  
Supercooled Liquid Region ◽  
Solution Phase ◽  
Solid Solution Phase ◽  
Liquid Region ◽  
Gradual Change

Low-energy ball milling technique was successfully used to synthesis new glassy Zr52Al6Ni8Cu14W20 multicomponent alloy powders using mechanical alloying method. During the intermediate stage of milling the atoms of Zr, Al, Ni, and Cu migrated and diffused into the W lattice to form a body-centered cubic solid solution phase. As the milling time increases, the obtained metastable powders are subsequently subjected to continuous defects and lattice imperfections that lead to a gradual change in the free energy so that solid solution phase transformed to another metastable phase (glassy). The glassy powders that were obtained after 720 ks milling are fully amorphous and have spherical-like morphology with an average particle size of 0.60 μm in diameter. The synthetic glassy Zr52Al6Ni8Cu14W20 alloy powder, which exhibits a glass transition temperature of 811 K, crystallizes at a high temperature (884 K) through a single sharp exothermic peak with an enthalpy change of crystallization of −5.48 kJ/mol. Whereas the supercooled liquid region before crystallization of the obtained glassy powders is 73 K, the reduced glass transition temperature (ratio between Tg and liquidus temperatures) was found to be 0.46. The fabricated glassy powders were consequently hot-pressed into bulk samples in an argon gas atmosphere at several temperatures with a pressure of 936 MPa. The samples that were consolidated within the temperature of the supercooled liquid region are fully dense, with relative density above ∼99.82%, and maintain their original homogeneous glassy structure. They have high Vickers microhardness values in the range between 8.46 and 8.62 GPa. They also show very high fracture strength (2.13 GPa) with an extraordinary high Young's modulus of 138 GPa. Neither yielding stress, nor plastic strain could be detected for this glassy alloy, the elastic strain of which is 1.47%.

Solid-state synthesis of new glassy Co65Ti20W15 alloy powders and subsequent densification into a fully dense bulk glass

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 2845-2853 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sherif El-Eskandarany ◽  
M. Omori ◽  
A. Inoue
Keyword(s):  
Glass Transition ◽  
Transition Temperature ◽  
Glass Transition Temperature ◽  
Glassy Alloy ◽  
Supercooled Liquid ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Supercooled Liquid Region ◽  
Exothermic Peak ◽  
Liquid Region ◽  
Plasma Sintering

The mechanical alloying method was used to synthesize a single glassy phase of Co65Ti20W15 alloy powders, using a high-energy ball mill. The glass transition temperature of the end-product, which was obtained after 173 ks of milling time, lies at 786 K, whereas the crystallization takes place at 878 K through a single sharp exothermic peak with an enthalpy change of crystallization of −4.37 kJ/mol. The reduced glass transition temperature was found to be 0.51. This glassy alloy powders exhibit a very large supercooled liquid region (92 K) for a ternary metallic system. The spark plasma sintering method was used to consolidate the glassy powders under an argon gas atmosphere at 843 K with a pressure of 19.6–38.2 MPa. The sample that was consolidated within 180 s maintains its chemically homogeneous glassy structure with a relative density of above 99.6%. Neither the supercooled liquid region nor crystallization temperature was affected by such a rapid consolidation procedure. Thus, the thermal stability of the bulk glassy sample is almost identical with the original glassy powders. The Vickers microhardness of the bulk glassy Co65Ti20W15 reveals high values, ranging between 8.69 and 8.83 GPa. The fabricated bulk glassy alloy shows high compressive strength of 2.44 GPa with a Young’s modulus of 176.81 GPa. Neither yielding stress, nor plastic strain could be detected for this glassy alloy, which its elastic strain is 1.33%.

Mechanically induced solid-state reaction for synthesizing glassy Co75Ti25 soft magnet alloy powders with a wide supercooled liquid region

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 2447-2456 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sherif El-Eskandarany ◽  
Wei Zhang ◽  
A. Inoue
Keyword(s):  
Glass Transition ◽  
Transition Temperature ◽  
Glass Transition Temperature ◽  
Ball Milling ◽  
Glassy Phase ◽  
Glassy Alloy ◽  
Supercooled Liquid ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Supercooled Liquid Region ◽  
Liquid Region

A single phase of glassy Co75Ti25 alloy powders was synthesized by high-energy ball milling the elemental powders at room temperature, using the mechanical alloying method. The final product of the glassy alloy, which is obtained after ball milling for 86 ks, exhibits soft magnetic properties with polarization and coercivity values of 0.67 T and 2.98 kA/m, respectively. This binary glassy alloy, in which its glass transition temperature (Tg) lies at a rather high temperature (833 K), transforms into face-centered-cubic Co3Ti (ordered phase) at 889 K through a single sharp exothermic reaction with an enthalpy change of crystallization (ΔHx) of −2.35 kJ/mol. The supercooled liquid region before crystallization ΔTx of the synthesized glassy powders shows an extraordinary high value (56 K) for a metallic binary system. The reduced glass transition temperature [ratio between Tg and liquidus temperatures, Tl (Tg/Tl)] was 0.56. We also demonstrated postannealing experiments of the mechanically deformed Co/Ti multilayered composite powders. The results show that annealing of the powders at 710 K leads to the formation of a glassy phase (thermally enhanced glass formation reaction). Its heat formation was measured directly and found to be −0.56 kJ/mol. The similarity in the crystallization and magnetization behaviors between the two classes of as-annealed and as-mechanically alloyed glassy powders implies the formation of the same glassy phase.

Amorphization and thermal stability of mechanically alloyed Zr54Cu19Ni8Al8Si5Ti5O1

2005 ◽  
Vol 903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vassilios Kapaklis ◽  
Athanasios Georgiopoulos ◽  
Peter Schweiss ◽  
Constantin Politis
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Stability ◽  
Glass Transition ◽  
Supercooled Liquid ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Supercooled Liquid Region ◽  
Liquid Region ◽  
Mechanically Alloyed ◽  
Scanning Calorimetry ◽  
Arc Melting ◽  
Thermal Stability Of

AbstractIn the present work we have intentionally introduced significant amount of oxygen to Zr- based alloys. Samples were prepared either by high energy ball milling of the elemental powders and single phase α-ZrO0.43 at the appropriate stoichiometry, or by melting in an Zr-gettered arc melting facility, in both cases under purified argon atmosphere. The effect of small amounts of oxygen (∼1 at. %) on the amorphization process and the thermal stability of mechanically alloyed Zr54Cu19Ni8Al8Si5Ti5O1 powders and arc melted bulk samples was studied by X-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry. It was found that the introduction of oxygen to the alloy composition does not inhibit the amorphization but enhances greatly the thermal stability of the mechanically alloyed amorphous powders. Compared to samples without oxygen prepared either by arc melting or mechanical alloying, samples with oxygen show an increase of the supercooled liquid region from ΔTx−g=Tx−Tg=117 °C to 141 °C where Tx is the crystallization and Tg the glass transition temperature. The glass transition for the mechanically alloyed samples (Tgma) remains unaffected at 336 °C.

Synthesis, Crystallization Behavior and Surface Modification of Ni-Cr-Si-Fe Amorphous Alloy

2012 ◽  
Vol 510-511 ◽  
pp. 137-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Iqbal ◽  
J.I. Akhter ◽  
M.U. Rajput ◽  
K. Mahmood ◽  
Z. Hussain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Differential Scanning Calorimetry ◽  
Surface Modification ◽  
Glass Transition ◽  
Transition Temperature ◽  
Crystallization Behavior ◽  
Supercooled Liquid ◽  
Supercooled Liquid Region ◽  
Liquid Region ◽  
Scanning Calorimetry ◽  
Scanning Electron

A quaternary Ni86Cr7Si4Fe3 amorphous alloy was synthesized by melt spinning technique. Surface modification was done by electron beam melting (EBM), neutron irradiation and γ-rays. Microstructure of as cast, annealed and modified samples was examined by scanning electron microscope. Crystallization behavior was studied by annealing the samples in vacuum at different temperatures in the range 773-1073 K. Techniques of X-ray diffraction (XRD), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) were used for characterization. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was conducted at various heating rates in the range 10-40 K/min. Thermal parameters like glass transition temperature Tg, crystallization temperature Tx, supercooled liquid region ΔTx and reduced glass transition temperature Trg were measured. The Ni86Cr7Si4Fe3 alloy exhibits wide supercooled liquid region of 60 K indicating good thermal stability. The activation energy was calculated to be 160±4 kJ/mol using Kissinger and Ozawa equations respectively which indicates high resistance against crystallization. The XRD results of the samples annealed at 773 K, 923 K, 973 K and 1073 K/20 min show nucleation of Ni2Cr3 and NiCrFe crystalline phases. Vickers microhardness of the as cast ribbon was measured to be 680.. About 30-50 % increase in hardness was achieved by applying EBM technique.

GLASS FORMING ABILITY AND KINETIC CHARACTERS OF PARAMAGNETIC Nd60Co40-xAlx(x=5, 10, 15) BULK METALLIC GLASSES

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 679-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. XIA ◽  
Y. D. DONG
Keyword(s):  
Glass Transition ◽  
Metallic Glasses ◽  
Bulk Metallic Glasses ◽  
Supercooled Liquid ◽  
Supercooled Liquid Region ◽  
Glass Forming Ability ◽  
Ternary Alloys ◽  
Liquid Region ◽  
Scanning Calorimetry ◽  
Glass Forming

Paramagnetic Nd 60 Co 40-x Al x(x=5, 10, 15) bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) were prepared in the shape of rods 2 mm in diameter by suction casting. The ternary alloys have shown distinct glass transitions in Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) measurements and excellent glass-forming ability. The glass transition and crystallization behaviors as well as their kinetics have been studied. The reduced glass transition temperature and the supercooled liquid region of the alloys were found to increase with the increasing content of Al . The role of Al was discussed. The parameter γ defined by Liu et al. was employed to discuss the glass-forming ability of the alloys and the critical cooling rates as well as the critical section thickness of the alloys were predicted accordingly.

Enthalpy Relaxation Kinetics of the Zr58.5Cu15.6Ni12.8Al10.3Nb2.8 Supercooled Liquid Close to the Glass Transition

2003 ◽  
Vol 806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minalben B. Shah ◽  
Ralf Busch
Keyword(s):  
Activation Energy ◽  
Glass Transition ◽  
Supercooled Liquid ◽  
Supercooled Liquid Region ◽  
Enthalpy Relaxation ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Liquid Region ◽  
Scanning Calorimetry ◽  
Relaxation Kinetics ◽  
State Diffusion

ABSTRACTIsothermal relaxation studies of the Zr58.5Cu15.6Ni12.8Al10.3Nb2.8 bulk metallic glass forming alloy were performed using Differential Scanning Calorimetry in the glass transition and the supercooled liquid region. A new experimental method was developed to study the isothermal enthalpy relaxation kinetics. The results reveal that the enthalpy relaxes in an Arrhenius fashion. The activation energy obtained from the Arrhenius fit is comparable to the activation energy required for the diffusion of the medium size atoms. This suggests that the solid-state diffusion governs the enthalpy relaxation process. The stretching exponents for the relaxation are close to unity, which indicates that the alloy is a rather strong glass former.

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