《Effects of density difference of constituent elements on glass formation in TiCubased bulk metallic glasses》.pdfVIP

Progress in Natural Science: Materials International 2013;23(5):469–474 Chinese Materials Research Society Progress in Natural Science: Materials International /locate/pnsmi ORIGINAL RESEARCH Effects of density difference of constituent elements on glass formation in TiCu-based bulk metallic glasses Zhongyan Zhang, Zengbao Jiao, Jie Zhou, Yuan Wu, Hui Wang, Xiongjun Liu, Zhaoping Lun State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China Received 3 February 2013; accepted 20 July 2013 Available online 9 October 2013 KEYWORDS Abstract Glass formation is generally favored by a large atomic size mismatch among constituent elements, which usually leads to large density differences among them as well. During melting, elemental Bulk metallic glass; Pre-alloy; segregation occurs due to Stokes’ law and then inevitably affects glass formation. In this paper, such Segregation; effects on glass-forming ability in a TiCu-based alloy system have been demonstrated. In the bulk glass- Glass forming ability; forming composition Ti Cu Hf Si , macroscopic segregation of Si was observed in the as-melted 43 42 14 1 Microalloying ingots and silicon was completely depleted in the as-cast rods. In another Ti Cu Ni Zr Si alloy,