Cu-Zr-Ti三元非晶合金形成范围的热力学预测

用基于热力学观点的定量预测三元合金形成非晶成分范围的方法,对Cu-Zr-Ti三元合金系形成非晶的成分范围进行了计算。该方法通过比较晶态固溶体的自由能和相应的非晶态的自由能来确定非晶形成的成份范围,在自由能的计算中,三元系的热力学数据用相应的3个二元系的热力学数据由Toop模型外推得到,二元合金系的形成焓则通过Miedema理论的计算得出。结果表明,理论预测的形成非晶的成分范围与已有的实验结果符合得比较好。     

块体非晶合金的韧塑化

块体非晶合金因其独特的原子结构而具有许多优异的力学性能,成为近年来材料领域的研究热点之一,但是由于其在变形过程中的室温脆性和应变软化等关键问题一直制约着其实际工程应用.为解决此问题,块体非晶合金领域的研究者们提出了多种方案,包括通过在非晶合金中调控其内禀特性如弹性常数、结构不均匀性,通过外加手段改变其应力及缺陷状态,通过外加和内生的方法在非晶基体中引入晶态增强相等方式,获得了一系列力学性能优异的块体非晶合金及其复合材料.特别是利用"相变诱导塑性"(transformation-induced plasticity,TRIP)概念研制出的块体非晶合金复合材料,同时具有大的拉伸塑性和加工硬化能力.本文围绕块体非晶合金的韧塑化这个关键科学问题,对单相非晶及非晶复合材料的韧塑化方案及机理进行了综述,着重介绍了TRIP韧塑化块体非晶合金复合材料的制备、性能、组织调控及韧塑化机理等,并对此领域的未来发展进行了展望.     

非晶合金结构演变影响玻璃形成能力的分子动力学研究

通过分子动力学方法模拟了Ti75Al25、Ni50Zr50和Cu50Zr50非晶合金的玻璃转变过程, 得到并分析了平均原子体积和双体分布函数等结构参数, 并应用Voronoi多面体指数分析法统计了玻璃转变过程中二十面体及类二十面体团簇的数量, 通过分析团簇在玻璃转变过程中种类和数量的涨落趋势, 研究了非晶原子由短程序连接至中程序再至长程无序的动力学演化过程. 结果表明, 非晶合金的玻璃形成能力以及塑性变形能力与动力学演化过程中Voronoi团簇的种类和数量密切相关. 在玻璃转变过程中局部五次对称性高的团簇倾向于连接在一起形成链,从而密排整个空间, 降低系统的动力学行为从而提高玻璃形成能力. 塑性形变倾向于发生在局部五次对称性较低的区域. 在玻璃转变温度附近团簇种类和数量的突变反映出非晶合金的自组织临界行为, 蕴含着丰富的非线性动力学现象.     

块体非晶合金的黏度与玻璃形成能力的关系

基于经典结晶理论讨论了非晶合金的晶化动力学因素和晶化热力学因素对玻璃形成能力（GFA）的影响.分析表明,合金的等温转变（TTT）曲线“鼻尖”温度T_n对应的黏度与晶化阻力因子成正比;重新加热时晶化开始温度T_x对应的黏度与晶化驱动力因子成反比.由此得到了新的GFA参数ω₀=（T_g-T₀）/（T_x-T₀）-（T_g-T₀）/（T_n-T₀）,其中T_g为玻璃转变温度,T₀为理想玻璃转变温度.统计结果显示,ω₀与临界冷却速率具有较高的相关性,R²高达09626.进一步分析表明：新提出的ω₀参数可以合理地解释过冷熔体的黏度、脆性、液相稳定性、热稳定性以及T_rg、ΔT_x、γ、γ_m、ΔT_rg、α、β、δ和φ等参数与GFA的关系. 关键词： 块体非晶合金 黏度 脆性 玻璃形成能力     

超高强块体非晶合金的研究进展

研制具有极限力学性能的金属材料一直是材料研究人员的梦想.超高强块体非晶合金是一类具有极高断裂强度(4 GPa)、高热稳定性(玻璃化转变温度通常高于800 K)和高硬度(通常高于12 GPa)的新型先进金属材料,其代表合金材料Co-Ta-B的断裂强度可达6 GPa,为目前公开报道的块体金属材料的强度记录值.本文系统地综述了该类超高强度块体非晶合金的组分、热学性能、弹性模量及力学性能,阐述了该类材料的研发历程;以弹性模量为联系桥梁,阐明了该类超高强块体非晶合金材料各物理性能的关联性,并揭示了其高强度、高硬度的价键本质.相关内容对于材料工作者了解该类超高强度金属材料的性能和特点,并推进该类材料在航空航天先进制造、超持久部件、机械加工等领域的实际应用有着重要意义.     

块体非晶合金 Zr55Cu30Al10Ni5 结构弛豫的研究

应用同步辐射小角x射线散射和差示扫描量热分析对块体非晶合金Zr55Cu30Al10Ni5结构弛豫进行了研究.实验结果表明:经340℃、不同时间退火后的非晶内部的电子密度涨落随退火时间的延长先增大而后减小;玻璃转变温度附近焓弛豫峰的表观激活能则随退火时间的延长先减小而后增大.结果反映了随退火时间的延长,块体非晶合金内部类液体区不断减少及类固体区不断增加的过程.     

退火态Zr55A110Ni5Cu30块体非晶合金在轧制过程中的自由体积演化

将Zr55All0Ni5Cu30块体非晶合金在715K等温退火30min,引入少量纳米晶,然后于室温以不同的应变速率进行轧制,用差示扫描量热仪考察不同应变量样品的热稳定性和自由体积演化．结果表明：即使轧制到95％的最大应变量,样品的热稳定性也几乎没有发生改变．在各种应变速率下,随着应变量的增加,自由体积含量持续上升．但随着应变速率的增加,相同应变量下自由体积的含量先上升后降低,该规律与单一非晶态结构合金在塑性变形过程中自由体积的变化情况截然不同．     

铁基块体非晶合金在纳米压痕过程中的蠕变行为研究

利用纳米压痕技术研究了{［（Fe_0.6Co_0.4）_0.75B_0.2Si_0.05］_0.96Nb_0.04}₉₆Cr₄铁基块体非晶合金的室温蠕变行为及不同的加载速率对该块体非晶合金蠕变变形的影响.{［（Fe_0.6Co_0.4）_0.75B_{0.2< 关键词： 块体非晶合金 蠕变 EVEV模型 蠕变速率敏感指数}     

用原位x射线小角散射研究块体非晶合金Zr55Cu30Al10Ni5的结构弛豫

应用同步辐射x射线小角散射法在原位对块体非晶合金Zr55Cu30Al10Ni5在等温退火过程中的微结构变化进行研究.实验表明:在等温退火过程中电子密度涨落反映了晶化之前的结构弛豫过程;在一定的退火温度下、随退火时间的增加,拓扑短程序弛豫与化学短程序弛豫之间存在一个电子密度均匀化的过程;导致这两种弛豫过程转变的退火时间与退火温度有关,温度越高,所需的退火时间越短.     

基于分数阶流变模型的铁基块体非晶合金黏弹性行为研究

采用分数阶黏弹单元替代经典模型中的黏壶, 结合非晶合金在外加载荷作用下的微观结构演化, 建立了以分数阶微积分表示的非晶合金黏弹性本构模型. 并根据Hertz弹性理论及分数阶黏弹性本构模型, 推导了块体非晶合金在纳米压痕球形压头下的位移与载荷及时间关系式. 基于推导的解析式, 对铁基块体非晶合金在表观弹性区的纳米压痕位移与载荷及时间曲线进行了非线性拟合分析. 相较于整数阶模型, 分数阶模型不仅具有较高的拟合精度, 其拟合参数能敏锐地反应加载速率对块体非晶合金黏弹性行为的影响, 且参数的变化规律与载荷作用下非晶合金微观结构演化呈现出较强的相关性.     

LaGa-based bulk metallic glasses

We report the formation of La Ga-based bulk metallic glasses. Ternary La–Ga–Cu glassy rods of 2–3 mm in diameter can be easily formed in a wide composition range by the conventional copper mold casting method. With minor addition of extra elements such as Co, Ni, Fe, Nb, Y, and Zr, the critical diameter of the full glassy rods of the La–Ga–Cu matrix can be markedly enhanced to at least 5 mm. The characteristics and properties of these new La Ga-based bulk metallic glasses with excellent glass formation ability and low glass transition temperature are model systems for fundamental issues investigation and could have some potential applications in micromachining field.     

Developing aluminum-based bulk metallic glasses

This paper details a systematic investigation of the formation of Al-based bulk metallic glasses, expanding on an earlier brief report [Scripta Mater. 61 (2009) p.423]. We discuss an approach for designing and predicting the best glass-forming composition in the Al–TM–RE systems, based on the atomic cluster packing model for the internal structure of the glass. The effects of additional elements in quaternary and quinary systems on the glass-forming ability and thermal stability of the glasses are also discussed. Three new compositions, Al₈₆Ni₆Y_4.5Co₂La_1.5, Al₈₆Ni₇Y₅Co₁La₁ and Al₈₆Ni₇Y_4.5Co₁La_1.5, are capable of forming fully glassy rods of 1 mm in diameter; their glass transition and other thermal properties are systematically characterized.     

Ni-based Ni-Fe-B-Si-Ta bulk metallic glasses

The glass-forming ability and properties of Ni-based Ni-Fe-B-Si-Ta bulk metallic glasses are explored in this work. The alloy compositions are determined by using a combination of the cluster line approach, the multi-alloying strategy and the substitutions of similar elements. Bulk metallic glasses with diameters of 3 mm take shape at compositions formulated under the clus- ter-plus-glue-atom model [M9B]B~[(Ni1-xFex)7.71(Si0.66Ta0.34)1.29B]B0.94=(Ni1-xFex)70.5B17.7Si7.8Ta4, x=0.35–0.45, where the bracketed part is the cluster and the unbracketed part is the glue atoms. These alloys exhibit good magnetic properties. The maximum Is is found in the (Ni0.55Fe0.45)70.5B17.7Si7.8Ta4 alloy which reaches 0.51 T, with its Hc as low as 8.5 A/m. Interestingly, these alloys display dual glass transitions at (Ni0.65Fe0.35)70.5B17.7Si7.8Ta4, (Ni0.60Fe0.4)70.5B17.7Si7.8Ta4 and (Ni0.55Fe0.45)70.5B17.7- Si7.8Ta4 as unveiled by Temperature-Modulated Differential Scanning Calorimetry.     

Minor alloying behavior in bulk metallic glasses and high-entropy alloys

The effect of minor alloying on several bulk metallic glasses and high-entropy alloys was studied. It was found that minor Nb addition can optimize the interface structure between the W fiber and the Zr-based bulk metallic glass in the composites, and improve the mechanical properties. Minor Y addition can destabilize the crystalline phases by inducing lattice distortion as a result to improve the glass-forming ability, and the lattice distortion energy is closely related to the efficiency of space filling of the competing crystalline phases. A long-period ordered structure can precipitate in the Mg-based bulk metallic glass by yttrium alloying. For the high-entropy alloys, solid solution can be formed by alloying, and its mechanical properties can be comparable to most of the bulk metallic glasses.     

Fe-B-Y-Nb bulk metallic glasses in relation to clusters

Bulk metallic glass formations in the Fe-B-Y-Nb quaternary alloy system were investigated by using the cluster line rule in combination with the minor alloying principle. The Fe-B-Y ternary system was selected as the basic system and the intersections of cluster lines were taken as the basic ternary compositions. The basic compositions were further alloyed with minor amounts of Nb. After 3–5 at.% Nb was added, the basic composition Fe_68.6B_25.7Y_5.7, which was developed from the most densely packed cluster Fe₈B₃, formed 3 mm bulk metallic glasses. These quaternary bulk metallic glasses (Fe_68.6B_25.7Y_5.7)_100−x Nb _x (x = 3–5 at.%) are expressed approximately with a unified simple composition formula: (Fe₈B₃)₁(Y, Nb)₁. The (Fe_68.6B_25.7Y_5.7)₉₇Nb₃ bulk metallic glass has the largest glass forming ability with the following characteristic parameters T _g = 907 K, T _x = 1006 K, T _g/T _l = 0.644, γ = 0.434, and longness t = 22 mm. The combination of the cluster line rule and the minor-alloying principle is a promising new route towards the quantitative composition design of multi-component metallic glasses. Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 50671018, 50631010 and 50401020) and the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2007CB613902)     

Thermodynamical properties of Zr-based bulk metallic glasses

The temperature dependence of Gibb's free energy difference (ΔG), entropy difference (ΔS) and enthalpy difference (ΔH) between the undercooled melt and the corresponding equilibrium solid phases of bulk metallic glass (BMG) forming melts has been proved to be very useful in the study of their thermodynamical behavior. The present study is made by calculating ΔG, ΔS and ΔH in the entire temperature range T_m (melting temperature) to T_g (glass transition temperature) for three Zr-based samples of BMGs: Zr₅₇Cu_15.4Ni_12.6Al₁₀Nb₅, Zr_41.2Ti_13.8Ni₁₀Cu_12.5Be_22.5 and Zr_58.5Cu_15.6Ni_12.8Al_10.3Nb_2.8. The study is made on the basis of Taylor's series expansion and a comparative study is also performed between the present result and the result obtained in the framework of expansions proposed by earlier workers, and also with the experimental results. An attempt has also been made to study the glass forming ability for BMGs.     

Linking high- and low-temperature plasticity in bulk metallic glasses: thermal activation,extreme value statistics and kinetic freezing

Abstract

At temperatures well below their glass transition, the deformation properties of bulk metallic glasses are characterized by a sharp transition from elasticity to plasticity, a reproducible yield stress and an approximately linear decrease of this stress with increasing temperature. In the present work, it is shown that when the well-known properties of the undercooled liquid regime, in terms of the underlying potential energy landscape, are assumed to be also valid at low temperature, a thermal activation model is able to reproduce the observed onset of macroscopic yield. At these temperatures, the thermal accessibility of the complex potential energy landscape is drastically reduced, and the statistics of extreme value and the phenomenon of kinetic freezing become important, affecting the spatial heterogeneity of the irreversible structural transitions mediating the elastic-to-plastic transition. As the temperature increases and approaches the glass transition temperature, the theory is able to smoothly transit to the high-temperature deformation regime where plasticity is known to be well described by thermally activated viscoplastic models.     

Preparation and characterization of Fe-based bulk metallic glasses in plate form

Amorphous alloys with composition (at%) Fe₄₈Cr₁₅Mo₁₄C₁₅B₆Gd₂ (alloy A) and Fe₄₈Cr₁₅Mo₁₄C₁₅B₆Y₂ (alloy B) were prepared either using pure elements (A and B1) and a commercial AISI430 steel as a base material (B2). When prepared from pure elements both alloys (A and B1) could be cast in plate form with a fixed thickness of 2 mm and variable lengths between 10 and 20 mm by means of copper-mold injection in air atmosphere. In the case of alloy B2, prepared using commercial grade raw materials, rods of 2 mm diameter were obtained.     

金属玻璃的热塑性成型

金属玻璃在其过冷液相区内表现出随着温度升高黏度逐渐降低的特性,因此可以对其进行热塑性加工.该性质颠覆了传统金属的加工成型方式,使得其在远低于传统金属材料加工的温度和应力作用下可以按照人们的要求进行成型.因此,一些具有低玻璃转变温度的金属玻璃又被称作金属塑料.另外,由于金属玻璃是一种无序结构材料,不存在位错、晶界等晶体缺陷,且热膨胀系数小,在热塑性成型中具有优异的尺寸精度,因此被认为是理想的微成型材料,有广阔的应用前景.本文系统介绍了金属玻璃的热塑性成型性质及其应用,从热塑性成型的基本概念出发,阐述了金属玻璃热塑性成型能力的评估指标、热塑性成型技术、热塑性微成型及其理论、热塑性微成型的应用等,对认识金属玻璃的热塑性及扩展其应用有重要的意义.