The embodiments described herein relate to BMG articles with high bulk having all dimensions greater than the critical dimension. Exemplary BMG article can include at least one bulk component and/or one or more fixation elements configured on surface of the bulk component or inserted into the bulk component. Other embodiments relate to methods of making the BMG articles by thermo-plastic-formation of BMG alloy materials.

The present invention provides a rare earth thin film magnet having Nd, Fe, and B as essential components, wherein the rare earth thin film magnet has a texture in which an α-Fe phase and a Nd.sub.2Fe.sub.14B phase are alternately arranged three-dimensionally, and each phase has an average crystal grain size of 10 to 30 nm. An object of this invention is to provide a rare earth thin film magnet having superior mass productivity and reproducibility and favorable magnetic properties, as well as to provide the production method thereof and a target for producing the thin film.

A Fe-based amorphous alloy containing subnanometer-scale ordered clusters, and a preparation method and a nanocrystalline alloy derivative thereof. The composition expression of the Fe-based amorphous alloy is Fe.sub.aSi.sub.bB.sub.c(Cu.sub.dX.sub.e)M.sub.fM′.sub.g, and X is at least one of Ti, Zr and Hf, M is at least one of V, Ta and Nb, and M′ at least one of Co, Ni, C, P, Ge, Cr, Mn, W, Zn, Sn, Sb and Mo; a, b, c, d, e, f and g respectively represent the atomic percent (percentage of the number of atoms) of the corresponding element, and satisfy: 74≤a≤82, 8≤b≤15, 4≤c≤10, 0.5≤d≤1.2, 0.4≤e≤1.8, 1≤f≤3.5, 0≤g≤1, 0.8≤e/d≤1.5 and a+b+c+d+e+f+g=100; the Fe-based amorphous alloy is a composite material composed of an amorphous alloy matrix with atoms arranged in complete disorder and ordered atomic clusters having the size ranging from 0.5 nm to 2 nm uniformly dispersed and distributed in the matrix. The Fe-based amorphous alloy has ultrahigh permeability: the permeability at the frequency of 100 kHz is more than 35000, and the saturation flux density more than 1.3 T.

An optimized Gamma-prime (γ′) strengthened austenitic transformation induced plasticity (TRIP) steel comprises a composition designed and processed such that the optimized γ′ strengthened austenitic TRIP steel meets property objectives comprising a yield strength of 896 MPa (130 ksi), and an austenite stability designed to have M.sub.s.sup.σ(sh)=−40° C., wherein M.sub.s.sup.σ(sh) is a temperature for shear, and wherein the property objectives are design specifications of the optimized γ′ strengthened austenitic TRIP steel. The optimized γ′ strengthened austenitic TRIP steel is Blastalloy TRIP 130.

A method for producing a soft magnetic material having both high saturation magnetization and low coercive force, including: preparing an alloy having a composition represented by Compositional Formula 1 or 2 and having an amorphous phase, and heating the alloy at a rate of temperature rise of 10° C./sec or more and holding for 0 to 80 seconds at a temperature equal to or higher than the crystallization starting temperature and lower than the temperature at which Fe—B compounds start to form wherein, Compositional Formula 1 is Fe.sub.100-x-yB.sub.xM.sub.y, M represents at least one element selected from Nb, Mo, Ta, W, Ni, Co and Sn, and x and y are in atomic percent (at %) and satisfy the relational expressions of 10≤x≤16 and 0≥y≤8, and Compositional Formula 2 is Fe.sub.100-a-b-cB.sub.aCu.sub.bM′.sub.c, M′ represents at least one element selected from Nb, Mo, Ta, W, Ni and Co, and a, b and c are in atomic percent (at %) and satisfy the relational expressions 10≤a≤16, 0<b≤2 and 0≤c≤8.

A method for preparing metal/metal interpenetrating phase composites is provided. The method includes forming a preform using additive manufacturing. The preform defines a materially continuous three-dimensional open-cell mesh structure. The preform includes a first metal having a melting point. The method further includes pre-heating the preform to a first temperature less than the melting point of the first metal. The method includes infiltrating the preform with a second metal in liquid form. The second metal has a melting point lower than the melting point of the first metal. The method also includes allowing the second metal to cool and form a solid matrix. The solid matrix defines a continuous material network.

A method for preparing metal/metal interpenetrating phase composites is provided. The method includes forming a preform using additive manufacturing. The preform defines a materially continuous three-dimensional open-cell mesh structure. The preform includes a first metal having a melting point. The method further includes pre-heating the preform to a first temperature less than the melting point of the first metal. The method includes infiltrating the preform with a second metal in liquid form. The second metal has a melting point lower than the melting point of the first metal. The method also includes allowing the second metal to cool and form a solid matrix. The solid matrix defines a continuous material network.

A multilayer block core includes a multilayer block in which nanocrystalline alloy ribbon pieces are layered, the nanocrystalline alloy ribbon pieces having a composition represented by the following Composition Formula (A).
Fe.sub.100-a-b-c-dB.sub.aSi.sub.bCu.sub.cM.sub.d  Composition Formula (A) In Composition Formula (A), each of a, b, c, and d is an atomic percent; the expressions 13.0≤a≤17.0, 3.5≤b≤5.0, 0.6≤c≤1.1, and 0≤d≤0.5 are satisfied; and M represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, and W.

The present disclosure discloses a preparation method of a multi-functional marine engineering alloy. Through the coupling of a multi-principal alloy structure, structural entropy, and temperature and powder metallurgy and heat treatment, mutual solubility between elements and free energy of an alloy system are regulated, Cu grain boundary segregation is eliminated, and uniform and dispersed nano-precipitation of the anti-fouling element Cu in corrosion-resistant and high-plasticity multi-principal alloys is realized. The preparation method is simple and controllable to operate, and the prepared material has plasticity higher than 75%, high yield strength, excellent corrosion resistance and anti-fouling property, and has important application prospects in the field of marine engineering.

Provided is a soft magnetic alloy including Fe as a main component, in which a slope of an approximate straight line, plotted between cumulative frequencies of 20 to 80% on Fe content in each grid of 80000 grids or more, each of which has 1 nm×1 nm×1 nm, is −0.1 to −0.4, provided that Fe content (atom %) of each grid is Y axis, and the cumulative frequencies (%) obtained in descending order of Fe content in each grid is X axis, and an amorphization ratio X is 85% or more.