Multi-Scale Traditional and Non-Traditional Machining of Bulk Metallic Glasses (BMGs)—Review of Challenges, Recent Advances, and Future Directions
Jahan M.P. Niraula A. Nafi M.A. Perveen A.
June 2024Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Micromachines
2024#15Issue 6
Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) are growing in popularity prominently due to their potential in micro-electromechanical systems (MEMSs) and aerospace applications. BMGs have unique mechanical properties, i.e., high strength, hardness, modulus of elasticity, and wear resistance, due to their disordered atomic structure. Due to their unique mechanical properties and amorphous structures, machining of BMGs remains a challenge. This paper aims to carry out a detailed literature review on various aspects of the machining of bulk metallic glasses using both conventional and non-conventional processes, including experimental approaches, modeling, statistical findings, challenges, and guidelines for machining this difficult-to-machine material. Conventional machining processes were found to be challenging for machining bulk metallic glasses due to their high hardness, brittleness, and tendency to convert their amorphous structure into a crystalline structure, especially at the machined surface and sub-surface. Although their high electrical conductivity makes them suitable for machining by non-conventional processes, they impose new challenges such as heat-affected zones and crystallization. Therefore, the successful machining of BMGs requires more in-depth analysis of cutting forces, tool wear, burr formation, surface finish, recast layers or heat-affected zones, crystallization, and mechanical property changes among different varieties of BMGs. This review paper provides guidelines emerging from in-depth analysis of previous studies, as well as offering directions for future research in the machining of BMGs.
bulk metallic glass (BMG) , conventional machining , crystallization , current challenges , future research direction , non-conventional machining
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Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Miami University, Oxford, 45056, OH, United States
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