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Fracture Processes in Fully Crystallized Co84Nb10B6 Metallic Glass

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

Janez Megusar
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Tina Vargas
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Nicholas J. Grant
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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Abstract

Fracture processes have been studied in a fully crystallized Co84Nb10B6 glass, with the mean grain size ranging from 43 nm to 0.65 μm. Tensile tested specimens with a mean grain size≥ 0.3 μm showed a ductile (dimple) fracture with microvoids initiated at the boride-cobalt matrix interfaces. As the mean grain size (more correctly, the corresponding mean free path of the deforming cobalt phase) was ≤ 0.1 μm, the fracture process may be similarly initiated by the microvoid formation at the boride-cobalt interface. However, one-to-one correspondence between dimples and boride particles may not be preserved. As a result, dimples become more shallow and may include several boride particles instead. Although the fracture surface of the brittle fine grained Co84Nb10B6 alloy gives an appearance of a cleavage fracture on a macroscale, it is distinctly different, by allowing for the microvoid formation on a microscale.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1986

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