Abstract
Understanding the mechanism of densification of amorphous alloy powders is important for determining the parameters during sintering of these materials. In this paper, we report on the analysis of densification of Fe48Cr15Mo14Y2C15B6 amorphous alloy powder during spark plasma sintering. Sintering up to 1000 °C resulted in two clearly distinguishable stages of densification: stage I from 320 °C to 740 °C and stage II from 830 °C to 1000 °C. The maximum densification rate during stage I was attained at 585 °C up to which the sample remained fully amorphous. During the entire stage II, the sample was fully crystalline, and the maximum densification rate attained at 935 °C was much lower than that observed during stage I. Viscous flow during stage I was analyzed, yielding an estimate of the activation energy to be 94.0 ± 0.2 kJ mol−1 in the temperature range from 525 °C to 580 °C.
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