Seminar Title:
Temperature dependence of pressure sensitive flow in bulk metallic glass composites
Seminar Type:
Departmental Seminar
Department:
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Speaker Name:
Priyanka Saini
Speaker Type:
Faculty
Venue:
M.Tech class room (MM 202E), MM Annex building
Date and Time:
30 Oct 2024 3:00 pm
Contact:
+91-6006270823
Abstract:
The constraint factor, C, defined as hardness, H, to the yield strength, σy, ratio, is an indirect
measure of the pressure sensitivity in materials. Previous investigations determined that
while C is less than 3 for crystalline materials, and remains invariant with change in
temperature, it is greater than 3 for bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) and increases with increasing
temperature, below their glass transition temperature, Tg. In this study, the variations in C for
two BMG composites (BMGCs), which have an amorphous matrix and in situ precipitated
crystalline β-Ti dendrites, which in one case transforms under stress to α”-Ti and deforms by
slip in the other, as a function of temperature are examined and compared with that of a BMG.
For this purpose, instrumented indentation tests, with a Berkovich tip, and uniaxial
compression tests were performed to measure the H and σy, respectively, on all alloys and their
constituents at temperatures in the range of 0.48Tg and 0.75Tg. σy and H of the BMGC with
transforming dendrites (BMGC-T) increase and remain invariant with increasing temperature,
respectively. Alternately, in BMG and the BMGC with non-transforming dendrites (BMGCNT), the same properties decrease with increasing temperature. BMGC-T has the highest C of
∼4.93 whereas that of BMGC-NT and BMG are ∼3.72 and ∼3.28, respectively, at 0.48Tg. With
increasing temperature, C of the BMG and BMGC-NT increases with temperature, but that of
the BMGC-T decreases. The values of C and their variations as a function of temperature were
explained by studying the variation of pressure sensitivity of the amorphous phase and
concluding that the plastic flow in BMGCs under constrained conditions, such as indentation,
is controlled by the flow resistance of the amorphous matrix whereas that in uniaxial
compression, which is only partially constrained, is controlled by plasticity in both the
dendrites and matrix.