New glassy Zr-Al-Fe and Zr-Al-Co alloys with a large supercooled liquid region

Abstract

New Zr-Al-Co and Zr-Al-Fe ternary glassy alloys were found to exhibit a large supercooled liquid region above 50 K before crystallization. The largest value of the supercooled liquid region was 64K for Zr55Al20Co25 and 50K for Zr70Al15Fe15. The highest value of the reduced glass transition temperature (Tg/Tg was 0.61 for Zr55Al20Co25 and 0.60 for Zr70Al15Fe15. The use of the Zr55Al20Co25 alloy with the highest Tg/Tl has enabled us to form bulk glassy alloy rods with diameters up to 3 mm by copper mold casting. The Young's modulus, yield strength, compressive fracture strength, elastic elongation and fracture elongation of the Zr55Al20Co25 glassy rod are 92 GPa, 2050 MPa, 2200 MPa, 2. 1% and 0.9%, respectively. The distinct plastic elongation indicates that the Zr-based bulk glassy alloy has rather a good ductile nature. The synthesis of the high-strength bulk glassy alloy in the new ternary system is expected to gain a new application field as a new type of bulk glassy alloy.