Synthesis and Characterization of Fe50Cr14Mo14C14B6Gd2 Bulk Amorphous Steel

Bulk amorphous steel having 7 mm thickness was synthesized to evaluate its thermal stability and mechanical properties.The steel was synthesized by Cu mold casting technique using 1-2N pure metals.Characterization of the material was done by X-ray diffraction,differential scanning calorimetry and scanning electron microscopy.The activation energies were calculated by Kissinger equation and it was found that the steel had better stability against crystallization.Mechanical properties like Vicker s hardness,nanohardness,elastic modulus and elastic recovery of as-cast and annealed samples were measured.It was concluded that the present steel had good glass-forming ability(GFA) and mechanical properties.