Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
Iron, nickel and/or cobalt base metallic glasses with low contents of metalloids, predominantly boron, upon heat treatment at temperatures well above crystallization temperature of the glassy phase transform into ultra-finegrained (microcrystalline) alloys containing finely dispersed boride phases.
Microcrystalline alloys devitrified from glassy phase are characterised by high strength, excellent thermal stability and superior corrosion/oxidation resistance. Mechanical properties of bulk microcrystalline alloys hot consolidated-devitrified from selected low metalloid metallic glass alloys are reported.