The Effect of Purity of Zirconium Material on Mechanical Properties and Microstructure of Zr-Based Bulk Metallic Glass

Abstract

Series of rod samples of Zr55Al10Ni5Cu30 alloy were prepared by magnetic suspend melting and copper mold suction casting method using 99.9wt% high purity zirconium and 99.4wt% low purity sponge zirconium respectively, the effect of purity of zirconium material on mechanical properties and microstructure of Zr-based bulk metallic glass were investigated. The result shows that high purity material alloy could enhance the thermal stability and glass forming ability of Zr-based bulk amorphous alloy, compression fracture surface analysis indicate that the vein patterns density increase with the material elements purity increase, the average compressive fracture strength is increased to 8.52% than that of low purity samples.