Abstract
Rapid heating blow molding is introduced as a thermoplastic molding process for bulk metallic glasses. Infrared heating allows the selective and quick heating of an object with precise control, providing the opportunity to achieve much lower viscosities than in conventional blow molding. These low viscosities enable short processing times, high strain rates, large strains, and good surface finishes even under a forming pressure as low as 105 Pa. This technology permits the blow molding of glassy metal sheets with a wide range of alloy compositions.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 100045 |
Journal | Results in Materials |
Volume | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2019 Oct |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Samsung Science & Technology Foundation . The authors would like to thank NEXTRON® for technical support with the IR heating blow molding experiments.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Authors
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Materials Science(all)