Amorphous alloys for brazing copper based alloys

Silver based alloys are used widely when brazing copper based alloys. Due to its high cost, researchers try to obtain silver free brazing alloys, in the shape of amorphous structure ribbons, avoiding thus the formation of intermetallic compounds that diminish its ductility and plasticity. In this paper, the authors present their results in trying to obtain brazing alloys from the Cu-Zn-Ni-P family, ribbon shaped with amorphous structure, using the melt spinning method. The amorphous character of the processed alloy is emphasized by X-Ray diffraction, and the brazed joints made with the alloy were submitted to metallographic analysis and shearing tests.