Hardness variation and cyclic crystalline-amorphous phase transformation in CuZr alloy during ball milling

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Schoen, David Taylor
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering.
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Christopher A. Schuh.
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Abstract
The hardness and percent crystallinity of Cu33Zr67 powder samples are measured through several cycles of a cyclic phase transformation during ball milling. Each are found to cycle with a period of approximately 320 minutes. Although significant chemical contamination was found in the milled specimens, the results shed some light on mechanical alloying theory and favor interpreting mechanical alloying as a driven alloys process.
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Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 2005.
 
Includes bibliographical references (leaf 41).
 
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2005
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32837
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Materials Science and Engineering.
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