Abstract
(Zr53Al11.6Ni11.7Cu23.7)1-x(Fe77.1C22.9)x (x = 0–2.2 at.%) bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) were prepared by water cooling copper mold suction casting and their isochronous crystallization characteristics are investigated. The glass transition temperature, crystallization temperature, and crystallization peak temperature for all studied Zr-based BMGs firstly increase with increasing heating rate, and then decrease when the heating rate increases up to 60 K/min for the BMGs (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.88 at.%) and 80 K/min for the BMGs (1.32 ≤ x ≤ 2.20 at.%). The glass transition temperature, crystallization temperature, glass transition activiation energy, crystallization activiation energy, and activiation energy for crystallization peak temperature of the Fe- and C-free Zr-based BMG are the smallest among the studied BMGs, indicating that Fe and C additions are benificial to delaying the glass transition and the crystallization. Fe and C additions influence more significantly on the glass transition than on the crystallization. The local crystallization activiation energy for the Fe- and C-free BMG are the smallest among the studied BMGs, indicating that the crystallization is easy for the Fe- and C-free BMG. The peak height of local Avrami exponent and its corresponding crystallization fraction decrease with increasing heating rate except for the BMG (x = 1.32 at.%). The fragility indexes are 32–48 for the studied Zr-based BMGs. The present results are of guiding significance for preparing the excellent BMG composites by heat treatment and selecting suitable conditions for forming the BMGs.
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