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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 667, Issue -, Pages 109-114Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.01.161
Keywords
Bulk metallic glass; Spark plasma sintering (SPS); Amorphous structure; Crystallization; Porosity; Hardness
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- German Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung
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The fabrication of Zr70Cu24Al4Nb2 bulk metallic glass composite samples by spark plasma sintering (SPS) process has been successfully realized. The unique characteristics of bulk metallic glasses could lead to the possibility of future applications as new structural and functional materials. The densification of an amorphous Zr70Cu24Al4Nb2 powder was realized in a systematic study changing the sintering temperature in the SPS process leading to stable composites characteristic of amorphous and nanocrystalline structures. X-ray diffractometry (XRD) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) analysis, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) as well as hardness tests were applied to determine the structural and mechanical properties of the sintered materials. A stable amorphous bulk metallic glass based on Zr70Cu24Al4Nb2 with a low fraction of crystallites could be fabricated applying a nominal sintering temperature of 400 degrees C. Higher sintering temperatures lead to composites with high fractions of nano crystalline material with porosities below 0.5%. (c) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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