Advanced Powder Technology, Vol.28, No.3, 814-819, 2017
Fabrication of new metallic glassy Ti40.6Cu15.4Ni8.5Al5.5W30 alloy powders by mechanical alloying and subsequent SPS consolidation
Mechanical alloying approach, using a low-energy ball milling technique was employed for synthesizing metallic glassy Ti40.6Cu15.4Ni8.5Al5.5W30 alloy powders. The powders of the product obtained after 200 h of milling possessed high thermal stability, characterized by a wide supercooled liquid region of 90 K and crystallization temperature began at 827 K. The powders were successfully consolidated into full dense bulk metallic glass at temperature laid above its glass transition temperature, using spark plasma sintering technique. The as-consolidated bulk metallic glassy alloy possessed extraordinary mechanical properties, such as high values of microhardness (similar to 11.61 GPa). Moreover, the measured friction coefficient of this new bulk metallic glassy alloy was 0.32. (c) 2016 The Society of Powder Technology Japan. Published by Elsevier B.V. and The Society of Powder Technology Japan. All rights reserved.
Keywords:Solid-state reaction;Bulk metallic glass;Thermal stability;Consolidation;Mechanical properties