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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
The structure and mechanical properties of amorphous and nanocrystalline Fe-Si-B alloys
1Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 25, Reymonta St., 30-059 Kraków, Poland. nmsypien@imim-pan.krakow.pl
Abstract:
This article describes the results of investigations of the microstructure of failure surfaces and the mechanism of deformation of an amorphous Fe(80)Si(11)B(9) alloy, nanocrystallized with the use of Nd:YAG pulsed laser heating. The research included 'in situ' tensile testing in a scanning electron microscope. Mechanical properties were also measured on an Instron-type machine for the amorphous and nanocrystalline alloys. The mechanical tensile tests performed on the amorphous and nanocrystalline samples showed a ductile fracture surface with very high fracture stress. Detailed observations of the flow deformation and fractures revealed the relationship between the quenched-in crystalline and mechanical behaviour.
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