Micro-alloying was performed using additions of Co and Fe to monolithic Pd 40 Ni 40 P 20 bulk metallic glass to study selectively the influence on the plastic behavior in uniaxial compression and three-point bending tests. The corresponding Poisson's ratios were determined by ultrasonic measurements. The microstructure of the individual bulk metallic glasses was characterized by electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and calorimetry. A plastic strain of 13% was found for the Co addition (1 at.%), whereas the Fe addition (0.6 at.%) led to immediate failure after reaching the elastic limit. Surprisingly, the plasticity is not reflected by the high Poisson's ratio of 0.4 since it remained unaffected by the minor alloying.

The influences of thermal cycling treatment in the temperature range of B2-B19 martensitic transformations (-150 to 150°C) on the TiNi alloy structure and properties were studied. Different states named the initial coarse-grained (CG) state, the ultrafine-grained (UFG) state after ECAP (with a grain size of 200 nm), the state after ECAP and cold upsetting by 30% were considered. The results show that the microhardness and the strength increase in all the three states. According to the XRD analysis, a more significant increment in the dislocation density, resulting from thermal cycling, is observed in the UFG alloy than in the CG alloy.

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Rapidly quenched Pd82Si18 ribbon was prepared by melt spinning. The thermal stability and non-isothermal crystallization kinetics of Pd82Si18 amorphous ribbon were investigated by differential scanning calorimeter measurements. Its structure was investigated by X-ray diffraction and transmission electronic microscopy. The activation energy was calculated by the Kissinger method, and the nucleation and growth during non-isothermal crystallization were investigated by the local activation energy and local Avrami exponent. The average activation energy for Pd82Si18 amorphous ribbon based on the Kissinger method is 330.672 kJ/mol, indicating that it has high thermal stability. The local activation energy of the glass ribbon was determined by the Kissinger–Akahira–Sunose method, and the local Avrami exponent was obtained based on the Johnson–Mehl–Avrami model. The calculated local activation energy increases to a maximum when the crystallization column fraction reaches 0.3, and it then decreases, which shows that crystallization is a multistep process. The local Avrami exponent indicates that the crystallization process of Pd82Si18 amorphous ribbon is controlled by volume nucleation with three-dimensional growth at various nucleation rates.