Abstract: The mechanism of mechanically-driven amorphization was extensively surveyed in various systems. It was concluded that the amorphization could occur in the systems of Cu-Zr with a negative heat of mixing (-ΔH) and Cu-Ta with a positive heat of mixing (+ΔH) by mechanical alloying of elemental powders.Such amorphization could also be started from an intermetallic compound Cu_xZr_y with no chemical reaction involved.The energy storage by mechanical attrition should be the driving force for the amorphization.The atomic distribution function and nuclear resonance spectroscopic studies show that the mechanical alloying provides a true alloying on an atomic level.The alloys formed are of a characteristic structure common to the rapidly quenched amorphous alloys.

Key words: mechanically-driven amorphization, metallic system, Cu-Zr, Cu-Ta