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Methods of Ex Situ and In Situ Investigations of Structural Transformations: The Case of Crystallization of Metallic Glasses
Published on: June 7, 2018
Isoconfigurational elastic constants and liquid fragility of a bulk metallic glass forming alloy
Mary Laura Lind1, Gang Duan, William L Johnson
1W. M. Keck Laboratory of Engineering Materials, 138-78, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125, USA. mll@caltech.edu
Abstract:
Samples of Zr(46.25)Ti(8.25)Cu(7.5)Ni(10)Be(27.5) were isothermally annealed and quenched near the glass transition temperature and studied by the pulse-echo overlap technique. The shear modulus G of the samples shows a strong reversible dependence on annealing temperatures and, thus, on the specific configurational potential energy of the equilibrium liquid. The low-T dependence of G of the configurationally frozen glasses shows linear temperature dependence as expected by Debye-Grüneisen theory. The T dependence of G in the liquid state is directly related to the viscosity and fragility of the liquid.
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