Glass forming ability: Miedema approach to (Zr, Ti, Hf)–(Cu, Ni) binary and ternary alloys

Basu, Joysurya and Murty, BS and Ranganathan, S (2008) Glass forming ability: Miedema approach to (Zr, Ti, Hf)–(Cu, Ni) binary and ternary alloys. In: Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 465 (1-2). pp. 163-172.

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Abstract

Miedema’s approach has been useful in determining the glass forming composition range for a particular alloy system. The concept of mixing enthalpy and mismatch entropy can be used in order to quantify Inoue’s criteria of bulk metallic glass formation. In the present study, glass forming composition range has been determined for different binary and ternary (Zr, Ti, Hf)–(Cu, Ni) alloys based on the mixing enthalpy and mismatch entropy calculations. Though copper and nickel appear next to each other in the periodic table, the glass forming ability of the copper and nickel bearing alloys is different. Thermodynamic analysis reveals that the glass forming behaviour of Zr and Hf is similar, whereas it is different from that of Ti. The smaller atomic size of Ti and the difference in the heat of mixing of Ti, Zr, Hf with Cu and Ni leads to the observed changes in the glass forming behaviour. Enthalpy contour plots can be used to distinguish the glass forming compositions on the basis of the increasing negative enthalpy of the composition. This method reveals the high glass forming ability of binary Zr–Cu, Hf–Cu, Hf–Ni systems over a narrow composition range.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of Alloys and Compounds
Publisher:	Elsevier
Additional Information:	copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier
Keywords:	Metallic glasses; Intermetallics; Rapid-solidification; Quenching; Enthalpy; Thermodynamic modeling
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Materials Engineering (formerly Metallurgy)
Date Deposited:	19 Dec 2008 04:39
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:52
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/16474

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