Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-n9wrp Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-18T17:29:48.687Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Thermal Cycling and Amorphous-Cyrstalline Transition in the Amorphous C60-Zr40 Alloy System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

M. A. Otooni*
Affiliation:
U. S. Army Armament Research and Development Command Dover, New Jersey, 07801
Get access

Abstract

The transition behavior of the amorphous Cu60Zr40 alloy system during its transition to crystallinity by thermal cycling has been studied. A Differential Scanning Calorimeter (Perkin-Elmer model DSC-2) was used to record, in situ, the onset of thermal evolution of the sample during the course of transition. Analysis of DSC tracings reveal that: a. Transition occurs at a lower temperature than those transformed without thermal cycling, b. The amplitude of the exothermic rise decreases proportionally with increasing numbers of the thermal cycles and c. Details of the profile of the DSC tracing, i.e., the width of the exothermic rise and the presence of the secondary exotherm, are quite different from those transformed without thermal cycling. Preliminary high resolution electron microscopy of thermally cycled samples indicate random distribution of copper-rich precipitates at the early stages of cycling and their coalescence during the final stage of crystallization. For large number of cycles, however, the induced strains from thermal cycles contributes to the image contrast of the quenched solid thus allowing the assessment of the proposed atomic level stresses and strains, via technique of high resolution electron microscopy.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1983

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

1. Egami, T., 1980, Phil. Mag. A, vol. 41, No. 6, 883901.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2. Williams, R. S., and Egami, T., 1976, I.E.E.E. Trans. Magnetics, 12, 927; 1978 Google Scholar
2a Rapid Quenched Metals IV, Vol. 1, edited by Canter (New York: The Metals Society), p. 214.Google Scholar
3. Briant, C. L., and Burton, J. J., 1975, Jour. Chem. Phys. 63, 2045.Google Scholar
4. Masumoto, T., and Maddin, R., 1975, Mater. Sci., Engng., 19, 1.Google Scholar
5. Maeda, K., and Takeuchi, S., 1978, J. Phys. F., 8, L283.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
6. Egami, T., 1978, J. Mater. Sci. 13, 2587.Google Scholar
7. Srolovitz, D., Egami, T., and Vitek, V., 1981, a Phys. Rev. 24.Google Scholar
8. Egami, T., and Srolovitz, D., 1982, J. Phys. F.: Met. Phys. 12, printed in Great Britain.Google Scholar
9. Revcolvevschi, A., Grant, N. J., 1972, Met. Trans., p. 15451548.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
10. Vitek, J. M., Vander Sande, J. B., and Grant, N. J., 1975, Acta Met. Vol. 23, p. 165176.Google Scholar
11. Otooni, M. A., 1981, ARRADCOM Tech. Paper (to be published).Google Scholar