查看更多>>摘要: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 temper-ature,Tg.In this study,the variations in C for two BMG composites(BMGCs),which have an amorphous matrix and in situ precipitated crystalline ß-Ti dendrites,which in one case transforms under stress toα"-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 com-pression 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(BMGC-NT),the same properties decrease with increas-ing 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 con-trolled 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.