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Correlation between microstructural evolution during high-pressure torsion and isothermal heat treatment of amorphous Al85Gd8Ni5Co2 alloy

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Al85Gd8Ni5Co2 metallic glass was subjected to partial devitrification by high-pressure torsion, continuous heat treatment, and isothermal annealing. The fully amorphous alloy exhibits a well-defined transition in its first devitrification product during isothermal heat treatments from τm + α-Al phase mixture to primary α-Al by increasing the annealing temperature above 555 K. This thermal sensitivity predestinates the composition to identify the controversial thermal contribution of the plastic deformation in metallic glasses. Thermal stability and structure of the partially devitrified samples were systematically analyzed and compared by calorimetry, x-ray diffraction, and electron microscopy. It seems that the effect of severe deformation cannot be singled out by a simple isothermal heat treatment; i.e., high-pressure torsion acts as a spectrum of heat treatments performed at different annealing temperatures.

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  1. Department of Materials Physics, Eötvös University, Budapest, H-1518, Hungary

    Péter Henits, Ádám Révész & Zsolt Kovács

  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Technology and Economy, Budapest, H-1111, Hungary

    Péter J. Szabó

  3. Physics of Nanostructured Materials, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, A-1090, Vienna, Austria

    Erhard Schafler

  4. Research Institute for Technical Physics and Material Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary

    János L. Lábár

  5. Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, H-1525, Hungary

    Lajos K. Varga

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Henits, P., Révész, Á., Schafler, E. et al. Correlation between microstructural evolution during high-pressure torsion and isothermal heat treatment of amorphous Al85Gd8Ni5Co2 alloy. Journal of Materials Research 25, 1388–1397 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.2010.0164

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