Abstract

Vit105 (Zr52.5Cu17.9Ni14.6Al10Ti5 at. %) bulk metallic glass samples were processed by high-pressure torsion and accumulative high-pressure torsion. By DSC, XRD and SANS methods it was shown that accumulative high-pressure torsion allows for achieving high real strains and leads to an increase in the free volume and significant transformation of the structure. Minor crystallization was detected after high-pressure torsion processing.

Highlights

  • High strength, large elastic strain limit, good corrosion resistance and other unique properties provide a great potential for the commercial application of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs)

  • Fragmentation appears on rings on selected area electron diffraction (SAED) images, taken from an area of 60 nm in diameter (Figure 1b, inset), while high-resolution TEM (HRTEM) (Figure 1b) photos reveal some fringes that might mean some kind of ordering in the structure

  • accumulative high pressure torsion” (ACC HPT) processing for nΣ = 10 leads to an increase in ∆V by ≈2%, and the increase in the full width at half maximum (FW HM)

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Introduction

Large elastic strain limit, good corrosion resistance and other unique properties provide a great potential for the commercial application of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs). The structure of bulk metallic glasses determines their mechanical properties [1,2,3]. The deformation of BMG occurs via the formation of shear bands (SB), and BMGs fracture along the very first shear band [1,2,4]. It is known that the formation of nanoscale heterogeneities—clusters and nanocrystals—can lead to an increase in plasticity. As shown in [5,6,7,8,9], preliminary deformation by rolling or compression enables the increase in ductility of amorphous alloys. The main idea of these routes is to form in BMGs nanometer-sized heterogeneities or to obtain amorphous structures consisting of nanoclusters [8]

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