| Abstract Scope |
Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) are often treated like a homogeneous class of materials, where glass-forming ability is typically favored over all other properties to ease manufacturing. However, BMGs can have mechanical and thermophysical properties that vary widely even within the same compositional family. Not every BMG is suitable for all needs. For many high-value applications, such as those used in aerospace applications, alloys must be specifically designed to optimize their properties for their intended use. This talk focuses on BMG alloy development at NASA for a variety of applications that require specific properties to be tailored to the use case. This includes applications such as gears, coatings, inserts, mechanisms, spacecraft magnetic and debris shielding, robotics, and thermal devices. |