Kinetic Crystallization Behavior of Amorphous U60Fe27.5Al12.5 Alloy

doi:10.11900/0412.1961.2021.00077

Acta Metall Sin

2022, Vol. 58

Issue (10): 1316-1324 DOI: 10.11900/0412.1961.2021.00077

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Kinetic Crystallization Behavior of Amorphous U₆₀Fe_27.5Al_12.5 Alloy

HAN Luhui¹, KE Haibo²(

), ZHANG Pei¹, SANG Ge¹, HUANG Huogen¹(

)

^1.Institute of Materials, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Jiangyou 621907, China
^2.Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, China

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HAN Luhui, KE Haibo, ZHANG Pei, SANG Ge, HUANG Huogen. Kinetic Crystallization Behavior of Amorphous U₆₀Fe_27.5Al_12.5 Alloy. Acta Metall Sin, 2022, 58(10): 1316-1324.

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Due to their high strength and excellent anticorrosive properties, U-based amorphous alloys are quite promising for applications in nuclear-related fields. However, they face the challenge of crystallization due to high temperatures during some applications. Currently, focus on the crystallization mechanism of such materials is limited; thus, further investigation is required. Herein, using differential scanning calorimetry, both nonisothermal and isothermal crystallization kinetics of typical amorphous U₆₀Fe_27.5Al_12.5 alloy were investigated. This alloy was further analyzed using different theoretical methods. The alloy exhibited the glass transition activation energy of slightly more than 270 kJ/mol and the melt fragility value of about 22, indicating that it is a strong metallic glass material. Based on the first exothermal crystallization peak, this glassy alloy is believed to possess the crystallization activation energy of 205-275 kJ/mol within nonisothermal method and 280-390 kJ/mol within the other method. The former value is much lower than the latter, which is consistent with the results of the conventional amorphous alloys. This general trend is mainly because crystallization can be activated more easily by a continuous increase in temperature. The kinetic factor of the alloy was in the ranges of 3-4 and 2.5-3 under the nonisothermal and isothermal conditions, respectively, demonstrating that the devitrification of the noncrystalline U-Fe-Al alloy greatly depends on the nucleation process, which is prone to occur during a rise in temperature.

Key words: uranium alloy amorphous alloy crystallization mechanism thermal analysis

Received: 25 February 2021

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Fund: Joint Funds of National Natural Science Foundation of China(U2030208);National Natural Science Foundation of China(51731002);Strengthening Fundamental Foundation Project(JCJQ-20190415);Fund of Science and Technology on Surface Physics and Chemistry Laboratory(6142A02200205)

About author: KE Haibo, professor, Tel: (0769)89136229, E-mail: kehaibo@sslab.org.cn;HUANG Huogen, professor, Tel: (0816)3626968, E-mail: hhgeng2002@sina.com

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Fig.1 DSC curves of U₆₀Fe_27.5Al_12.5 amorphous alloy at different heating rates (a), Kissinger plots (b) and Ozawa plots (c) to calculate the activation energies relative to E_g, E_x and m and extrapolation of T_g, T_x1, and T_x2 at different heating rates to obtain the Kauzmann temperature (T_K) (d) (θ—heating rate;T—temperature; T_g—glass transition temperature; T_x1 and T_x2—crystallization temperatures; E_g—activation energy relative to T_g; E_x1 and E_x2—activation energies relative to T_x1 and T_x2, respectively; m—fragility)

Table 1 Thermodynamic temperatures of U₆₀Fe_27.5Al_12.5 amorphous alloy

Table 2 Activation energies and fragility of U₆₀Fe_27.5Al_12.5 amorphous alloy corresponding to Table 1 (Ki and Oz denote the Kissinger and Ozawa methods, respectively)

Fig.2 DSC curves at various heating rates (a) and plots of the crystallization volume fraction (x) (b) as a function of temperature of U₆₀Fe_27.5Al_12.5 amorphous alloy

Fig.3 The Ozawa plots of -lnθ vs 1000 / T at different x (a), and the activation energy(E_c) as a function of x (b) of U₆₀Fe_27.5Al_12.5 amorphous alloy

Fig.4 ln[-ln(1 - x)] vs 1000 / T plots at various heating rates (a), and plots of local kinetic factor (n) as a function of x (b) of U₆₀Fe_27.5Al_12.5 amorphous alloy

Fig.5 DSC curves (a) and plots of x (b) as a function of the annealing temperature (t) of U₆₀Fe_27.5Al_12.5 amorphous alloy annealed at different temperatures

Fig.6 Plots of crystallization time vs annealing temperature (a), and the activation energy as a function of x (b) of U₆₀Fe_27.5Al_12.5 amorphous alloy annealed at different temperatures

Fig.7 Plots of ln[-ln(1 - x)] vs ln(t -τ) at various annealing temperatures (a), and plots of n as a function of 1 - x (b) of U₆₀Fe_27.5Al_12.5 amorphous alloy (τ is the induction period before crystalliz-ation, n is local kinetic exponent)

Table 3 Characteristic temperatures and crystallization kinetic parameters of some amorphous alloys^{[19,20,23-32]}

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