TY - GEN
T1 - Relaxation behavior of Zr-Cu-Al ternary bulk glassy alloy studied by using positron annihilation techniques
AU - Ishii, Akito
AU - Mineno, Shinya
AU - Iwase, Akihiro
AU - Yokoyama, Yoshihiko
AU - Konno, Toyohiko J.
AU - Hori, Fuminobu
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Zr-based bulk glassy (BG) alloys show high tensile strength and a high Charpy impact value. In this study, the free volume changes for the hypoeutectic Zr60Cu30Al10 BG alloy during isothermal annealing below glass transition temperature (Tg) have been investigated by positron annihilation lifetime and coincidence Doppler broadening (CDB) measurements. The positron lifetime of hypoeutectic and eutectic BG alloys is almost the same, although the atomic volume ratio, estimated by the density for the eutectic BG alloy is different from that for the hypoeutectic BG alloy. The CDB spectra show a marked difference between eutectic and hypoeutectic BG alloys; that is, the spectrum of the hypoeutectic BG alloy is closes to that of Zr metal than that of the eutectic BG alloy. This result exhibits that the elemental fraction of Zr atoms around free volume in hypoeutectic BG alloy is greater than that in eutectic BG alloy. The CDB ratio profiles for the hypoeutectic BG alloy during annealing shows no appreciable change. The same trend was observed in the eutectic BG alloy.
AB - Zr-based bulk glassy (BG) alloys show high tensile strength and a high Charpy impact value. In this study, the free volume changes for the hypoeutectic Zr60Cu30Al10 BG alloy during isothermal annealing below glass transition temperature (Tg) have been investigated by positron annihilation lifetime and coincidence Doppler broadening (CDB) measurements. The positron lifetime of hypoeutectic and eutectic BG alloys is almost the same, although the atomic volume ratio, estimated by the density for the eutectic BG alloy is different from that for the hypoeutectic BG alloy. The CDB spectra show a marked difference between eutectic and hypoeutectic BG alloys; that is, the spectrum of the hypoeutectic BG alloy is closes to that of Zr metal than that of the eutectic BG alloy. This result exhibits that the elemental fraction of Zr atoms around free volume in hypoeutectic BG alloy is greater than that in eutectic BG alloy. The CDB ratio profiles for the hypoeutectic BG alloy during annealing shows no appreciable change. The same trend was observed in the eutectic BG alloy.
KW - Bulk glassy alloy
KW - Positron annihilation techniques
KW - Structural relaxation
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U2 - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.654-656.1070
DO - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.654-656.1070
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77955482647
SN - 0878492550
SN - 9780878492558
T3 - Materials Science Forum
SP - 1070
EP - 1073
BT - PRICM7
PB - Trans Tech Publications Ltd
T2 - 7th Pacific Rim International Conference on Advanced Materials and Processing, PRICM-7
Y2 - 2 August 2010 through 6 August 2010
ER -