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In this work, we study the cooling behavior of several typical bulk glassy alloys on casing and present the relationship between the thermal conductivity of a glassy alloy and the cooling rate upon mold casting. The cooling rates obtained for Ti-, Zr-, Pd-, and Cu-based bulk glass forming alloys are found to scale with the thermal conductivities of the studied glassy alloys.
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This work was supported in part by the Research and Development Project on Advanced Metallic Glasses, Inorganic Materials and Joining Technology as well as by Grant-in-Aid “Priority Area on Science and Technology of Microwave-Induced, Thermally Non-Equilibrium Reaction Field” N: 18070001 from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.
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Louzguine-Luzgin, D.V., Saito, T., Saida, J. et al. Thermal conductivity of metallic glassy alloys and its relationship to the glass forming ability and the observed cooling rates. Journal of Materials Research 23, 2283–2287 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.2008.0286
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