Abstract
After a silence of three decades, bulk metallic glasses and their composites have re-emerged as a competent engineering material owing to their excellent mechanical properties not observed in any other engineering material known till date. However, they exhibit poor ductility and little or no toughness which make them brittle and they fail catastrophically under tensile loading. Exact explanation of this behaviour is difficult, and a lot of expensive experimentation is needed before conclusive results could be drawn. In present study, a theoretical approach has been presented aimed at solving this problem. A detailed mathematical model has been developed to describe solidification phenomena in zirconium based bulk metallic glass matrix composites during additive manufacturing. It precisely models and predicts solidification parameters related to microscale solute diffusion (mass transfer) and capillary action in these rapidly solidifying sluggish slurries. Programming and simulation of model is performed in MATLAB®. Results show that the use of temperature dependent thermophysical properties yields a synergic effect for multitude improvement and refinement simulation results. Simulated values proved out to be in good agreement with prior simulated and experimental results.
Highlights
After a silence of three decades, bulk metallic glasses and their composites have re-emerged as a competent engineering material owing to their excellent mechanical properties not observed in any other engineering material known till date
Model works by explaining dendritic growth in cast alloys during solidification by manipulating physical process parameters with the change of heat and mass transfer coefficients
A) There is significant effect of initial metal temperature, composition, type of alloying elements, temperature gradient and thermo-physical properties on final microstructure developed as a result of heat and mass transfer phenomena
Summary
Bulk Metallic Glasses [1] and their Composites [2] have emerged [3] as competitive structural engineering material [4] during last two decades and have attracted the attention of several major research clusters [5]-[19] around the globe. Main areas of research activity have been focused around probing into mechanical properties and their improvement as these materials have high hardness, strength and elastic strain limit but suffer from lack of ductility which make them brittle and they fail abruptly [24] [25] under the application of tensile and impact loading The mechanism behind this is the formation and rapid movement of shear bands [26]-[33] in the volume of material by virtue of which material does not exhibit any yielding. Rafique ture primarily explaining dendrite tip temperature and dendrite tip radius as a function of growth rate/dendrite tip velocity based on dendrite tip stability theory
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