《Structural relaxation of Zr41Ti14Cu12.5Ni10Be22.5 bulk metallic glass under high pressure》.pdfVIP

Vol. 46 No. 5 SCIENCE IN CHINA (Series G) October 2003 Structural relaxation of Zr Ti Cu Ni Be bulk metallic 41 14 12.5 10 22.5 glass under high pressure 1,2 2 2 LI Gong (李 工) , SUN Liling (孙力玲) , ZHANG Jun (张 君) , 1 1 1,2 LIU Riping (刘日平) , JING Qin (景 勤) , WANG Wenkui (王文魁) , 3 4 GAO Yunpeng ( 高云鹏) CHEN Dan (陈 丹) 1. Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Qinhuangdao 066004, China; 2. Institute of Physics Center for Condensed Matter Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China; 3. Beifang Mingjing Glass Com. Ltd., Qinhuangdao 066004, China; 4. Tianjin Heavy Machinery Company, Tianjin 300400, China Correspondence should be addressed to Liu Riping (email: riping@ysu.edu.cn) Received January 13, 2003 Abstract Zr Ti Cu Ni Be bulk metallic glass (BMG) is annealed at 573 K under 3 GPa and 41 14 12.5 10 22.5 its structural relaxation is investigated by X-ray diffraction, ultrasonic study, compression as well as sliding wear measurements. It is found that after the ZrTiCuNiBe BMG sample was annealed under high pressure, the mechanical properties were improved. Moreover, the BMG with relaxed structure exhibits markedly different acoustic properties. These results are attributed to the fact that relaxa- tion under high-pressure results in a microstructural transformation in the BMG. Keywords: Zr41 Ti14Cu12.5Ni10Be22.5, bulk metallic glass , high pressure, structure