Crystallization behavior of preannealed bulk amorphous alloy Zr 62Al8Ni13Cu17

Xiao Dong Wang, Hoseong Lee, Seonghoon Yi

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Abstract

Isochronal and isothermal heating methods by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) were used to investigate the effects of sub-Tg relaxation on the subsequent crystallization of a Zr62Al 8Ni13Cu17 bulk amorphous alloy. It was found that the activation energy by Kissinger's equation couldn't fit to describe the crystallization behavior of the samples after preannealing. Actually, pre-annealing decreased the incubation time by promoting the formation of critical clusters while increased the activation energy for the following growth. Avrami exponents for the as-quenched samples kept a constant of about 3.5∼3.9 but for the pre-annealed samples deviated from the linear Johnson-Mehl-Avrami (JMA) mode. The different nucleation and growth mechanism affected by structural relaxation was explored.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)935-938
Number of pages4
JournalMaterials Letters
Volume60
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2006

Keywords

  • Activation energy
  • Avrami exponent
  • Crystallization
  • Morphology
  • Sub-T relaxation

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