Tensile softening of metallic-glass-matrix composites in the supercooled liquid region

Abstract

A Ti-based metallic-glass-matrix composite exhibits tensile softening (necking) in the supercooled liquid region, accompanied by a large tensile ductility and a fragmentation of dendrites. Subjected to high temperatures, concurrent crystallization does not occur, suggesting a good thermal stability of the glass matrix. The presence of high-volume-fractioned dendrites lowers the rheology of the viscous glass matrix at high temperatures, which results in an absence of super elongation as monolithic bulk metallic glasses (BMGs). A tensile strength of 970 MPa is higher than those of most BMGs under varying strain rates, ascribing to the retardation of softening by the dendrites. © 2012 American Institute of Physics.