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Journal of Nanomaterials
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 814915, 10 pages
Consolidation of Amorphous Powders by Hot Pressing
1Department of Material Engineering, Nanotechnology and Advanced Material Institute, Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran
2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea
Received 13 May 2012; Accepted 8 July 2012
Academic Editor: Mohammad H. Maneshian
Copyright © 2012 M. Tavoosi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The current study investigates the feasibility of fabricating amorphous Al80Fe10Ti5Ni5 powders by mechanical alloying and consolidating them into bulk samples by a hot-pressing technique. As-milled and hot-pressed samples were examined by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transition electron microscopy, and differential scanning calorimetry. The results showed that milling of Al80Fe10Ti5Ni5 powder for 40 h and hot pressing at 550°C under 600 MPa led to a fully dense bulk sample. During consolidation, an AlTi intermetallic phase with average crystallite size of 10 nm precipitates in the amorphous matrix.
1. Introduction
Alloys with Al content of 80 to 90 at.% have attracted considerable attention due to their combination of good ductility and high strength [1–7]. Among the various aluminum alloys, Al-Fe systems are of technological interest due to their advantageous properties, including high specific strength, high specific stiffness, good strength at intermediate temperatures, and excellent corrosion resistance at elevated temperatures under oxidizing, carburizing, and sulfidizing atmospheres [8–12]. A new class of Al-based alloys, which has received a great deal of attention in recent years, is amorphous as well as nanocrystalline [13–23].
Indeed, amorphous alloys exhibit several superior properties that cannot be obtained in crystalline materials. In general, bulk amorphous alloys can be fabricated by two main processes: direct solidification from the melt and consolidation of an amorphous powder or ribbons. Generally, very high cooling rates are required for the formation of an amorphous phase from the liquid state and only a few amorphous alloys with high glass-forming ability can be applied to the fabrication of bulk amorphous alloys by a direct solidification process. Due to the requirement of a high cooling rate, amorphous alloys have largely been fabricated in the form of powders, ribbons, and wires with small thickness or diameter [14–17], and hence the application of amorphous alloys as a structural material has been limited.
The glass-forming ability of Al-based alloys is so low and there is not any report about formation of bulk amorphous structure for these alloys by the use of direct solidification methods [11–13]. Nevertheless, a great number of amorphous alloys in Al-based alloys have been synthesized by various preparation methods of rapid quenching from liquid or vapor and solid-state reactions [13]. However, the maximum thicknesses of the resulting amorphous alloys have usually been limited. The limitation of the maximum sample thickness has prevented a wide extension of application fields of amorphous alloys. Consequently, great efforts have been devoted to preparation of a bulk amorphous alloy from amorphous alloy powder by using various techniques of warm pressing, warm extrusion, explosive compaction, hot pressing, and spark plasma sintering [13, 24]. The powder metallurgy process promotes high strength bonding between particles and a microstructure similar to that of a wrought product [25–30].
The purpose of this study is the investigation of the feasibility of fabricating amorphous Al80Fe10Ti5Ni5 powders by mechanical alloying and consolidating them into bulk samples by a hot-pressing technique.
2. Experimental Procedure
Commercial elemental powders of Al (99%), Fe (99.9%), Ti (99%), and Ni (99.99%) were used as raw materials. The mixture of elemental powders with a composition of Al80Fe10Ti5Ni5 (in atomic percentage) was mechanically alloyed in a planetary ball mill under an argon atmosphere in a steel container at room temperature. A rotation speed of 250 rpm and a ball to powder ratio of 10 : 1 were employed. 1 wt% stearic acid powder supplied by Merck was used as the process control agent (PCA).
The produced amorphous powders were consolidated in a vacuum hot-pressing machine to prepare bulk amorphous discs with 10 mm diameter and 1 mm thickness. Hot pressing was performed at different temperatures and pressures. The hot-pressing chamber was evacuated and pressure was applied during the entire consolidating process.
The as-milled powders and consolidated samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transition electron microscopy (TEM), and differential scanning calorimetry. The XRD analysis was performed using a Philips diffractometer (40 kV) with Cu Kα radiation (λ = 0.15406 nm). The XRD patterns were recorded in the 2θ range of 30–70° (step size 0.03° and time per step 1 s). The morphology, fracture surface, and cross-sections of prepared samples were examined using SEM. The microstructure of the produced amorphous powder was investigated by TEM and a selected area diffraction (SAD) pattern analysis carried out at an accelerating voltage of 200 kV resolution of 0.19 nm. A differential thermal analysis (DTA) was conducted to study the thermal stability of the produced amorphous alloy using a Reometric STA 1500 differential thermal analyzer. The samples were placed in Al2O3 pans and heated in a dynamic Ar atmosphere up to 1200°C at a constant heating rate of 40°C/min.
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Production of Al80Fe10Ti5Ni5 Amorphous Phase
The XRD patterns of the Al-10%Fe-5%Ni-5%Ti powder mixture after various milling times are shown in Figure 1. In the early stage of milling, broadening of Al, Fe, Ni, and Ti peaks accompanied by a remarkable decrease in their intensities occurred as a result of refinement of crystallite size and enhancement of lattice strain. Increasing milling time up to 10 h led to the disappearance of Fe, Ti, and Ni peaks. This may be due to dissolution of these elements in the Al lattice. By increasing the milling time, two narrow peaks corresponding to the decagonal phase (D-phase) are observed in the XRD patterns. Analysis of the XRD patterns in Figure 1 reveals that the D-phase, which formed from the solid solution during milling, could be amorphized by further milling (after 40 h) and there is no significant change as the milling time is prolonged to 100 h. A TEM micrograph and SAD pattern of powders ball milled for 40 h are also presented in Figure 2. As can be seen in this figure, the SAD pattern of this sample consists of only amorphous halo and there is no evidence of the presence of any crystalline phase, which is in agreement with the XRD result. This indicates that the product of mechanical alloying of the Al-10%Fe-5%Ni-5%Ti powder mixture is an amorphous phase.
SEM cross-sectional micrographs of powder particles after different milling times are presented in Figure 3. According to the micrographs, in the early stages of mechanical alloying (MA), the ductile components are flattened to platelet shapes, cold welded together, and form a composite lamellar structure of the constituent metals (Figures 3(a) and 3(b)). With increasing MA time, the composite powder particles are work hardened and fragmented. With further milling (Figures 3(c) and 3(d)), the interlamellar spacing decreases and true alloying at the atomic level occurs, resulting in the formation of solid solutions, intermetallics, or even amorphous phases. In this stage, the interlayer spacing disappears or becomes so fine that it is no longer visible using SEM (Figure 3(e)). The morphology of Al80Fe10Ti5Ni5 powders after 40 h of ball milling is also shown in Figure 4. As seen here, the powders milled for 40 h are spherical and have an average diameter of 2 μm.
3.2. Thermal Behavior of Produced Amorphous Powder
As noted in the previous section, milling the mixed powder for 40 h led to the formation of the Al80Fe10Ti5Ni5 amorphous phase. The mechanically milled microstructure is in a metastable state and considerable microstructural changes can occur upon heating the milled powder. In order to study the thermal stability of the produced amorphous phase, the sample was examined by DSC under continuous heating conditions. Figure 5 shows the DSC heating traces of the Al80Fe10Ti5Ni5 amorphous alloy at a constant heating rate of 20°C/min. As seen in this figure, two peaks appear in the DSC curve (an exothermic peak at 950°C and an endothermic peak at 1100°C). To analyze the crystallization process responsible for the exothermic peak, the as-blended sample was annealed under an Ar atmosphere at 1000°C for 20 min. The XRD pattern and a TEM micrograph of the Al80Fe10Ti5Ni5 amorphous phase after annealing at 1000°C are presented in Figures 6 and 7, respectively. As can be seen here, the annealed sample consists mainly of an Al13 (Fe,Ni)4 [31] and Al3Ti [32] intermetallic phases. Therefore, the exothermic peak in Figure 5 is attributed to precipitation of these phases from the amorphous phase. Meanwhile, the endothermic peak at 1100°C in Figure 5 is for the melting of the produced alloy. These results indicate that the total transformation sequence of the Al80Fe10Ti5Ni5 amorphous alloy is a one-stage process in the temperature range from 930°C to 980°C.
In fact, according to the DSC results, the crystallization in Al80Fe10Ti5Ni5 proceeds in the same manner as in the Al80Fe10Ti10 [11] system and is different from that in Al80Fe20 [23] and Al83Fe17 [10] amorphous systems. In contrast to the Al80Fe10Ti5Ni5 amorphous alloy (which exhibits one-stage crystallization on heating), the Al80Fe20 and Al83Fe17 amorphous phases exhibit three-stage crystallization during heating.
3.3. Consolidation of the Ball-Milled Amorphous Powders
Fully amorphous powder particles with high crystallization temperature (950°C) in Al80Fe10Ti5Ni5 alloy provide good conditions for the fabrication of a bulk amorphous material. In this study, the as-milled powders were consolidated by hot pressing into a disk shape. To optimize the condensation parameter, the ball-milled amorphous powders were hot pressed at different temperatures (400, 450, 500, and 550°C) under various pressures (200, 300, 400, 500, and 600 MPa) for 30 min. In order to investigate the condensed samples, the fracture surface morphology after compression tests was examined using SEM. Fracture surface photographs of samples hot pressed at different temperatures under a constant pressure of 600 MPa and under different pressure values at a constant temperature of 550°C are shown in Figures 8 and 9, respectively. As seen in these figures, the trace of the interparticle boundaries between the powders increases and the porosity in the hot pressed samples decreases as the pressing temperature and pressure increase. These results indicate that the optimum temperature and pressure for consolidation of the amorphous powders via the hot-pressing method are 550°C and 600 MPa, respectively, in our experimental conditions. The polished cross-sectional view of the consolidated sample at 550°C under 600 MPa in Figure 10 shows no remaining pores.
Figure 11 shows the XRD pattern of the consolidated at 550°C under 600 MPa. From the peaks corresponding to AlTi, it can be concluded that the amorphous phase does not remain after consolidation at temperature of 550°C for 30 min. The presence of the crystalline phase in the amorphous matrix in the consolidated bulk sample can be further confirmed by TEM and elemental maps. The TEM micrograph and elemental map of the hot-pressed sample are shown in Figures 12 and 13, respectively, where limited nanocrystallization (formation of AlTi with average size of 10 nm in the amorphous matrix) occurred during the consolidation processes and the produced bulk material is not fully amorphous.
3.4. Thermal Behavior of Produced Bulk Material
In order to investigate the thermal behavior and microstructural changes of the consolidated bulk amorphous alloy (below crystallization temperature), pressed samples were annealed at several temperatures for 3 h. XRD patterns of as-hot pressed and annealed samples at 550°C, 600°C, 650°C, and 700°C are presented in Figure 14. During the consolidation of the amorphous powders at 550°C for 30 min, the AlTi phase precipitates in the amorphous matrix. Analysis of the XRD patterns in Figure 14 reveals that by annealing the samples at temperature above 550°C (below crystallization temperature), the AlTi diffraction peaks disappeared and several peaks corresponding to Al13(Fe,Ni)4 and Al3Ti intermetallic phases appeared. By increasing the annealing temperature, the intensity of Al13(Fe,Ni)4 and Al3Ti peaks in the XRD patterns increases as a result of increasing the crystalline size and the fraction of this phase during annealing.
4. Conclusions
In the present work, we fabricated amorphous Al80Fe10Ti5Ni5 powders by milling elemental powder mixtures for 40 h. The crystallization process of this amorphous alloy is a one-stage mode of the Al13(Fe,Ti)4 and Al3Ti intermetallic compounds. The results showed that the as-milled amorphous Al80Fe10Ti5Ni5 powders were consolidated successfully into bulk metallic glasses by a hot pressing technique. The temperature and pressure for successful condensation of amorphous powders in the hot pressing method are 550°C and 600 MPa, respectively. During the consolidation, the amorphous phase does not remain and an AlTi intermetallic phase precipitates in the amorphous matrix.
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST, no. 2010-0026981). H. S. Kim acknowledges the support of a grant (B551179-08-01-00) from the cooperative research project "Development of common manufacturing technology for high functional susceptor" funded by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Republic of Korea.
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HAYWARD — Authorities have identified an elderly woman who died in a fire Monday night at Cypress House Apartments as 76-year-old Peggy Harding.
Harding, who had been bedridden since 1998 because of a stroke, died after becoming trapped in the bedroom of her burning apartment on Cypress Avenue, Hayward fire spokesman La Shon Earnest said Tuesday.
Firefighters were called at 7:28 p.m. to the 50-unit complex after they received reports of smoke coming from a first-floor apartment.
Crews arrived a few minutes later and had the one-alarm fire under control within about 10 minutes. As they moved through the apartment, checking for hot spots, they discovered Harding dead in a back bedroom.
Earnest said an upstairs neighbor heard a smoke alarms, went downstairs, opened the door and saw Harding's 76-year-old husband, Randy.
"The neighbor saw flames in the back bedroom, grabbed a fire extinguisher and made an attempt to put it out, but the smoke was too overwhelming," Earnest said.
The fire, he said, was too hot for either of the men to get Peggy Harding out of the apartment. Both men were treated for minor smoke inhalation and released at the scene, Earnest said.
Investigators determined the fire was started by an electrical malfunction. A wall outlet in the bedroom had been modified with a four-outlet conversion, Earnest said; it overheated and ignited a nearby pillow.
Randy Harding "tried to move it, burned his hand, dropped the pillow and couldn't control the fire," Earnest said.
The fire, which caused nearly $100,000 in damage, did not spread to other units in the apartment complex, Earnest said.
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TAYLORSVILLE — Morgan guard Lisa VanCampen drove the lane, pivoted, and passed the ball right to Desert Hills forward Emily Seifert.
Seifert caught the ball and, in perfect stride, launched a shot from the right wing and drained a game-winner.
Just weeks after playing against each other for the 3A state title, Van Campen and Seifert, along with eight other seniors from around 3A, joined forces to take on the 4A seniors in the Utah Women's Basketball Coaches Association all-star game, held at Taylorsville High on Saturday afternoon.
VanCampen's shot capped the 3A squad's rally from a double-digit deficit late in the fourth quarter to give the smaller classification the 94-92 victory.
"It wasn't exactly what we drew up," Seifert said of the final play, which was executed immediately after a timeout that was called following a game-tying free throw from Springville's Savannah Park.
"It was what we all knew we needed to do," Seifert said. "(The game) was always competitive — just the intensity level kept getting higher and higher as the leads kept changing."
Seifert had 12 points for the 3A team, while her Desert Hills teammate Blair Bliss led all scorers with 27 points. Taylor Gordon of North Sanpete scored 21 and Morgan guard Rashel Blazzard added 13.
Timpanogos forward Eternity Galeai led 4A with 16 points, while Highland forward Ma'ata Epenisa had 14 and Park scored 13.
Prior to the 3A-4A game, the 5A seniors split into North and South teams and faced off. After holding just a two-point lead after three quarters, the 5A North team went on a 10-0 run over the first four minutes of the final quarter to pull away with an 85-71 win.
"We just came together really well," said Brighton forward Maddie Chin, who scored eight points for the North team. "It seemed liked it didn't matter where we were from, we all just played really well together."
She then added, "We wanted to win. We knew it was mostly for fun, but we still had that competitive drive."
Caitlyn Larsen of Viewmont, Kaelani Sagapolu of Fremont, and Maddi Smith of Layton each tallied 15 points for the North, while Riverton guard Shelby Richards led all scorers with 17 points and two 3-pointers for the South.
Tess Matagi of Hunter had 10 points and Lateesha Richards (Riverton) and Madyson Quigley scored nine points apiece.1 comment on this story
In the final game of the day, a matchup between the 1A and 2A all-stars, the 2A crew steadily pulled away for a 72-56 victory.
Class 2A guard Alisha Lewis of South Summit led all scorers with, 20 points while South Sevier's Shantae Dustin had 12 and North Sevier's Devyn Sorenson added 11. The 1A group was led by Piute guards Whitney Westwood, who had 12 points, and Kierra Gleave, who had 10 points.
In addition to senior all-stars, who were voted onto their teams by the coaches of their classification, region coaches of the year were also honored.
Sarah Thomas earned a degree in Mathematics from the University of Utah and is currently pursuing an MBA at Westminster College. She has been covering sports for the Deseret News since 2008.


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U.S. officials say investigators have found no evidence that a conservative Muslim friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev had any connection to the Boston Marathon bombing.
Family members have said Tsarnaev grew up religiously apathetic, but hardened his Islamic views in 2008 or 2009 under the influence of a Muslim convert known to the family as "Misha."
It remains a mystery who, exactly, this person is. CBS News notes that Misha is an extremely common nickname in Russia, particularly as a shortened form of the name Mikael.
Tsarnaev's uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, said of the man to CNN: "This person just took his brain. He just brainwashed him completely."
Misha has been described in the media as heavyset and bald with a red beard. He also apparently "claimed to be an exorcist who is fighting with demons."
Elmirza Khozhgov, once a brother-in-law of Tsarnaev, said Tsarnaev once introduced him to somebody by the name.
"It seemed to me that Misha had influence on Tamerlan," Khozhgov told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "Tamerlan told me that he quit boxing and music because Misha was teaching that it's not good in Islam to do those things."
Tsarnaev soon became an ardent reader of jihadist websites and extremist propaganda, two U.S. officials said. He read Inspire magazine, an English-language online publication produced by al-Qaida's Yemen affiliate. He also apparently took an interest in "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," the classic anti-Semitic hoax first published in Russia in 1903 that claims a Jewish plot to take over the world.
Two U.S. officials close to the investigation say the FBI has identified an individual believed to be Misha. They would not say whether the FBI has spoken to him, but say they've found no ties to the attack or terrorism in general.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case. Tsarnaev, one of two suspects in the bombing, died in a shootout with police.
CNN has more on the mysterious "Misha":
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Back in 2002, I went online at sncf and booked TGV tickets (Paris-Arras) easily. Not so this time. Notwithstanding that we live in an era of computers and the EU, booking train tickets in Europe is becoming stupidly complicated for North Americans.
Acknowledgement: Many thanks to the man in seat 61 (he runs seat61.com) from whom I learned about capitainetraine dot com and much more.
Okay, now for our itinerary.
Origin: CDG airport (Paris, France)
Leg 1: CDG to Bruges, Belgium (TGV, InterCity including border crossing)
Leg 2. Bruges to Antwerp, Belgium (InterCity, no border crossing)
Leg 3. Antwerp to (Schiphol/Amsterdam), the Netherlands (THALYS, border crossing)
Leg 1. You can route Paris-Bruges via either Brussels or Lille. We chose Lille for various reasons (see below.) Paris-Lille will always be a TGV train (high speed train operated solely by French rail, sncf) and Paris-Brussels will be a TGV train if it originates in CDG, and a THALYS train if it originates in downtown Paris, i.e. Paris Gare du Nord (literally, north station.) Note you can connect Gare du Nord and CDG with the local "RER" train.
How we booked it: We booked and printed CDG-Lille using capitainetrain. We did not get a flag from our CC company when we did this (possibly because the amount was not large) but I ended up having to call our CC company anyway because of the fiasco with my attempt to buy the tickets on sncf (Got as far as punching in my CC details, hit the purchase button - and the site bombed. So I had to find out if the purchase somehow got debited from my CC account, even though of course I had no tickets. I also at the same time confirmed that the capitainetrain purchase was legit. Later on, when I used b-europe.com, I got an automated call from my CC bank, and had to follow up and explain that that too was a legit purchase.)
Important: if you are using capitainetrain to book a THALYS train, read the following:
It explains that capitainetrain can only book 'collect at station' tickets for THALYS trains - UNLESS you sign up for a Thalys 'TheCard' (free) in which case you can get paperless tickets (Thalys brands it as Ticketless). This means your tickets are stored on your Thalys TheCard and you are sent an ticket confirmation email which you can use as a substitute ticket. (I think what happens is, you sign up for TheCard, get a number, make a first booking quoting that number, and then they send you TheCard. By snail mail. (
Oh, good grief. All the benefits of the modern age - providing you wait for 'TheCard' to arrive in North America by nineteenth-century snail mail first. I didn't go that route. It's a conspiracy, I tell you. But hardly capitainetrain's fault. Anyway, if you do go that route, be sure to read the above blog post if you want to use capitainetrain for Thalys tickets.
(to be continued)
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Meanwhile, back at the ranch: So now we have Paris-Lille TGV tickets. For whatever reason, capitainetrain cannot sell us tickets Lille-Bruges. This is a simple Intercity route that requires no advance reservation. Theoretically it can be booked on b-europe dot com, the site of Belgian rail, but when you go to check out, you cannot get digital homeprint, (print at home tickets) only pick up at (Belgian) station tickets. A tad awkward since if I was in a position to pick up tickets in Belgium, I wouldn't need to take a train to Belgium in the first place. And there's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza.... Or I can go for the 'ticketless' option which means waiting for snail mail to deliver my oh-so-futuristic 'TheCard'. I don't want to play in this insane sandbox, so:
I have decided to live life on the wild side and wait to buy the Lille-Bruges Intercity ticket at CDG while waiting for our CDG-Lille TGV, if possible - or buy the ticket on arrival in Lille (which will probably mean taking a later train out of Lille than I'd like, but there it is.) I could book that portion of the leg on raileurope, but I refuse to pay booking fees (and possible delivery fees) for a simple Intercity train which can't be reserved. Call me stubborn.
Leg 2. Bruges to Antwerp, Belgium. There are various ways to do this: Buy an Intercity ticket when you get to Bruges, or get an Any Belgian Station (ABS) option as part of a THALYS train Antwerp to Schiphol/Amsterdam.
The Intercity choice can be slightly cheaper to very much cheaper, but it will involve a couple of transfers and a journey longer by about an hour or so. Since we found a good ABS fare, we decided to combine the purchase for legs 2 and 3. Our ticket allows us one journey from any Belgian station (Bruges) which can be the day before the departure of the THALYS train from Antwerp to Amsterdam. I'm assuming no more than 24 hours before, which may not be true. Either way, it is no biggie - the portion Bruges-Gent-Antwerp is on an Intercity train.
Okay, so how did we book the THALYS portion (This goes for those going out of Brussels to various points France or Belgium-The Netherlands.)
That was easy. Hop on b-europe.com, Belgian(English) - since this trip originates in Belgium - and after selecting your journey, choose 'digital homeprint' option and print them out.
I hope this has been of some use. Note that I have had to use three different methods of purchasing tickets - two for the first leg, and one for the next two legs. I am not normally a conspiracy theorist, but this time I KNOW there's a conspiracy going on and it's EVIL I TELL YOU, EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL!!!!!! (Sue looks around with wild mad-woman eyes.)
Thank you. I feel much better now. Good luck with your own ticket purchases.
By the way, I recently told a first-timer to Europe to just bite the bullet and buy his CDG-Amsterdam ticket with Raileurope. It's galling, but it is simpler and saves time.
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One final note: If you use the b-europe.com site to book Paris-Bruges, it does seem fairly straightforward IF you use the Belgian-French version of the site. You can get digital homeprint tickets - providing you accept that you can only start your journey in Paris Nord, and provided you take a THALYS train journey from Paris Nord to Brussels (which is a headache for those wanting to commence their journey direct from CDG as you then have to buy RER tickets to Paris Nord and schlepp through Paris Gare du Nord, not my favourite station).
Note you can't get a digital homeprint for a journey routing TGV Paris Nord to Lille, IC to Bruges, so far as I can tell, you can only opt to pick up the tickets at the station- ha ha, only Belgian stations, as far as I can tell. Postal service is only to Belgium and Luxembourg addresses, as well.
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Sue, great stuff.
I don't have a printer at home so enjoy picking up the tickets at the station. Stil it can be frustrating.
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What a nightmare. Who says that train travel is easier today ? Not. Think we'll rent a car.
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It is a pain, isn't it? Just thought I'd chime in that we did the Paris-Lille-Bruges trip two summers ago, and buying the Lille-Bruges ticket was a snap at the Lille station. YMMV, but it took about 10 minutes and we hopped right on the train we wanted. Hope your trip goes smoothly--Bruges is very worth the effort.
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If you want or need to take a Thalys ticket, why not download the App and get your ticket on your mobile phone (works for ticket inspection also without internet connection)? Or does that not work with your US credit cards?
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Then you will not be happy to hear that " SNCF has informed [Capitainetrain] of their intention to phase out collect-at-station tickets completely in favour of the E-ticket." The problem of pick up at station tickets is that people were booking oh, say, Amsterdam-Antwerp on capitainetrain, which can only sell pick up at station tickets in respect of stations in FRANCE. Bit of a problem there.... it makes sense only for France residents to make such a booking (why, I don't know - perhaps as half of a double 1 way booking.) That's why capitainetrain is pushing the ticketless option to avoid that kind of error.
And as I pointed out, b-europe.com can only offer pick-up-at station option in respect of stations in BELGIUM, so for journeys that one can't print out at home (Lille-Bruges) that's a bit of a problem, for the same reason. Again, obviously something designed to suit only the needs of Belgium residents.
The main thing to remember is that if you're crossing a Belgian border at any point, THALYS is your friend and is easy to book and to print out. It only gets complex if you want to sidestep the system's marketing bias, which I did. I want to depart from CDG, and not from Paris Nord. The schedules and transfer points also suited me better. But my journey involves mixing the TGV, a purely French network, with crossing into Belgium and furthermore, to a point other than Brussels. Whereas the system is designed to steer travellers to THALYS trains for such a journey, no doubt because having invested in that expensive network, Belgium and the Netherlands need to get the revenue to support it from seat sales.
Anyway my desires are in contrast to most travelers, who will be quite happy to depart from Paris proper. For most travelers wishing to go to Belgium (or from Belgium to France), it is a simple matter to book and print out at home, THALYS tickets on b-europe. But one must choose the B-europe French site for Thalys journeys starting in Paris, and the B-europe Belgium-(English) site for Thalys journeys originating in Belgium, if one wants the print at home option.
THALYS is not a bad train - it is a fast, state of the art high speed train. It isn't even necessarily that much more expensive than the alternatives if you shop carefully. And you can get an ABS fare so as to go onward to, or depart from (example) Bruges via Brussels.
For simplicity, you can go on Raileurope. A car is fine - but from what I've heard of Bruges, it is not exactly car-friendly. Back in the middle ages folks didn't have enough foresight to plan for car parking...
But yes, if you want to take the TGV out of CDG and thence onward to somewhere other than Lille or Brussels, it is bit inconvenient. But thanks to Mango, I feel a bit better about the Lille-Bruges section.
THALYS tickets aren't the problem especially if one uses digital homeprint, as I explained above. By the way I don't have a phone - well, okay, I do, but not one that would work in Europe and in fact, it's so old it barely works here. I did just get an ipod Touch, which supposedly does allow the function you describe (it's an iPhone without the phone), but I am still learning how to use the device as I just got it.
I am also still working on trying to understand what TheCard is really about - at first I thought it was just a 'Frequent Flyer' type program (which it is) but it sounds more like an actual loadable card -- I think. But I think you are right - reloadable cards or phone apps are the way of the future, whether we want it or not.
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One last thing.
I should have cautioned that my advance purchases consist solely of non-refundable tickets. There is less of an issue with CC fraud, I think, with such tickets (it is hard to see how anyone could fraudulently generate a cash stream, with a non-refundable ticket.) But I can't be sure that rigourous anti-fraud measures were the reason I couldn't book with sncf, since it crashed just BEFORE I was about to be directed to the Verified by Visa portion of the session. Nor can I be sure that anti-fraud measures are why I can't seem to book Intercity type tickets online.
Anyway, anti-fraud measures in combination with built-in marketing bias, combined with railways seeking to encourage people to move to non-paper tickets of any kind, makes it very, very difficult to figure out why the systems are designed as they are. Too many variables. This is unfortunate, because it is hard to explain to others how to use, what one is not absolutely confident one has understood, oneself.
I mention this because as much as I've tried to be accurate in my experience and suggestions, people's mileage may still vary because despite all, I still may have gotten things wrong.
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Is there a specific reason why you book Thalys tickets on Belgian Rail's website and not on thalys.com ?
On the latter I never had the issue of getting "the card" or picking it up in Belgium. You can simply print at home or get the "boarding pass" sent to your phone.
For rail travel within Belgium. you don't save a euro if you get your ticket in advance. You can simply get it at the station and hop on the next train.
The anti-fraud measures you experienced must be an issue of your US banks. I use my credit cards in "foreign countries" once a week. And you simply don't notify your bank here when you travel, and you don't have issues when making purchases on foreign websites, no matter if it's Belgium or Indonesia or the US.
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Hello again Cowboy
No specific reason except I found b-europe to be user-friendly and let me do a digital homeprint of a Thalys ticket Antwerp-Schiphol (and being an ABS fare,it covers the IC portion Brugge Antwerp, no lining up at window, yay! As for picking up at the station, all I know is that some journeys weren't available for home print and only offered options like 'ticketless' or 'pick up at station." They do discuss options for mobile tickets on smartphones or tablets on b-europe but I haven't a clue as yet about this technology, how to use it.
Side rant: I've been through so many iterations of high tech over my lifetime I'm almost exhausted. Punched cards, then PCs, DOS, several programming languages, umpteen iterations of Windows, spreadsheets, word processing, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and now I'm taking seminars so that I can keep up with what today's five year olds already know about smartphones. Keep up? I am running like mad and the horizon is constantly receding. I swear, I seriously think I'll end by going off into the woods with a pencil, paper, my cash in a sock, and a note left behind that if anyone needs to reach me, they can do so by carrier pigeon.
Okay rant over. Where were we....
Ticketless (see below) seemed a headache, at least getting TheCard since I'm an infrequent travel on the system. Meanwhile here's what they say about TheCard on b-europe.com
"Ticketless Thalys allows you to travel to any Thalys destination without a printed train ticket. You are no longer required to pick up your ticket from the station, nor to have the ticket sent to you or to print your ticket at home.
"While booking online, you just have to enter the number of your Thalys The Card at stage 3 of the booking process.
"For the control on board, you will just have to present your The Card chipcard or the confirmation e-mail of your ticketless booking with a 3D-bar code. "
In short, TheCard seems to be an alternative to phone technology. By the way,
Anyway, the third and final option, in the event that homeprint wasn't available (for some journeys it is, for others it isn't) seemed to be pick up at the station. But depending on the site where you order the tickets, the station for pickup may not be suitable. My point was to warn people against the pick up in station option unless they are sure it will work for them (clearly, people had been making errors.)
Re the fraud thing, I was simply speculating based on the experiences of self and others, as to why the sncf site crashes for so many people, when many people, including myself, used to have no trouble with it. Like you I have sometimes done foreign transactions with no problems. But not on that site. You may be right, North American banks may use a different protocol than yours. But as for sncf, I am done with it. Waste of time.
Re rail travel within Belgium (e.g on IC trains) - yes, I know that there's a flat fare system. But it would be convenient not to have to line up at a ticket window to buy the IC ticket, especially if one is already in transit from somewhere else. Convenient or no, avoiding a ticket window for some journeys does not seem not an option unless, of course, that leg is covered by the ABS portion of a Thalys fare.
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Understood. Lining up at the station is no fun, indeed.
Especially not in Belgium where I usually got stuck in line behind someone needing a super complicated annual pass or another time-consuming product.
To make things maybe a bit more confusing:
For intra-Belgium rail travel I always use SNCB's domestic website b-rail.com and print my tickets at home.
You can homeprint any ticket for any connections within Belgium (except Thalys between Brussels and Antwerpen, I guess - but there are THAT many trains that you don't need it) -- even for short legs like from Brussels Airport to downtown Brussels. Which is a good idea IMO, as queues at the airport's train station can be really long.
Between Belgium and the Netherlands, Thalys is just one highspeed train company. You can find all your options at yet another website: nshighspeed.nl
Last time I needed to go from Antwerpen to Rotterdam, I found the regular InterCity connections much cheaper than Thalys. This may be an option for those who don't mind to, e.g. take a slower direct train which needs an hour for what Thalys does in 35 minutes, but with the advantage of not being tied to a certain Thalys train and save half the fare. Going elsewhere like Amsterdam may be a different scenario and the Thalys may be the best option (esp. with ABS option).
nshighspeed.nl also offers homeprint, and so far I have found their website's layout and buying procedure quite easy to handle.
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interesting, and no cash on London buses...
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Thank you for all that info, most useful. It sounds like you based in Belgium (?) About the homeprint of connections within Belgium - I had forgotten temporarily that Belgian rail has two sites, one for international tickets, one for domestic. Thanks for the reminder.
That's it, I think public transit in general is headed for 'chip cards' aka 'smart cards' (or mobile/phone downloads.) London has the Oyster card, i.e. no cash on the buses, as you pointed out. But they at least still offer one day travel card versions for tourists to London. In the Netherlands, they have OV Chipkaart anonymous and personal versions; they also have a disposable one-to-four day chip card that is of limited use (only within Amsterdam area, and not valid on regional buses which is a real pain.) Belgium now has 'TheCard' - so far for rail networks, but one wonders if bus transit will soon follow.
I realize this is straying into Netherlands territory and this thread is about France-Belgium but: That OV Chipkaart business - great for Dutch residents, not really great for tourists: € 7.50, nonrefundable, for an 'anonymous' (non Dutch resident) card; minimum balances - nonrefundable in the case of anonymous cards - to be kept on the card, and the balance can be up to € 20 if one wants to board a train, even for just a short journey like Haarlem-Amsterdam. But on the other hand, big discounts on bus fares and no need to worry about correct change. Decisions, decisions.
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No, I'm not in Belgium, but I need to go there once or twice every month. So after a couple dozen times you probably just get used to the systems..
btw.. Belgian Rail has only a moderate "penalty" of €3 for buying the ticket on the train. Actually, you are supposed to look for the conductor immediately after you boarded without a ticket. But so far, I've only noticed people staying in their seats until the conductor comes by and only then ask for a ticket. Anyway, if you need to catch a train and travel only within BE and there are lots of people at the ticket window, it is an option to jump on the train and pay the extra €3 per ticket. After all, rail travel still is pretty cheap in Belgium.
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Yes, one does get used to systems - until they change them again LOL!
Thanks for the tips.
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Okay, so here's how it went in the end.
Arrived at CDG at 08:30 but it was after 10:00 am by the time our plane made it to the gate; deplaning, immigration, picking up bags (not too bad this time, only about 10 minutes extra) and walking over to the CDG TGV station (this part isn't fun, one must ford lineups of passengers as one crosses the various terminals.) On the basis of this experience, I wouldn't book a TGV train leaving earlier than 2 hours after one's plane is due to arrive, but your mileage may vary.
Found way to the CDG ticket office and avoided lining up at the part that sells only local Paris and surrounds tickets. One wants the 'Grandes Lignes' section. If memory serves, the local ticket office is indicated with green signs whereas the Grandes Lignes signs are in blue. These two ticket offices are side by side, so watch carefully if you don't want to spend time in the wrong line.
Note that prior to leaving home we changed our itinerary to Gent for the first night. Having checked out SNCF beforehand, I knew that the only routing SNCF would sell me to Gent was an absurd one via Bruges - and the CDG ticket office lady confirmed this. So, we bought IC tickets Lille-Courtrai (in Flemish, Kortrijk) leaving Lille an hour after our TGV was due to arrive.
So, at 11:57 we boarded our TGV to Lille, and after an hour there we boarded the IC train which would get us across the Belgian border. It turned out to be a Belgian rail train, but I suspect both companies share the routing rights.
My plan was to hop off in Courtrai/Kortrijk and buy the tickets for the last leg Kortrijk-Gent on the next train leg but luckily thanks to a helpful English-speaking Belgian on the Lille-Kortrijk run, I found I could buy the next ticket onward, i.e. Kortrijk-Gent, on the Lille-Kortrijk/Courtrai train, from the conductor. This I duly did - and he didn't even charge us the extra 3 euro apiece for the service (though I wouldn't count on this).
Arriving at Kortrijk we hopped off, and walked maybe ten paces to the train pulled up alongside. This was a simple commuter style train.
Once in Gent, we bought a shareable ten-ride public transit 'lijn' card from the desk in the Gent train station. We were able to use it in Gent and Bruges (and could have used in Antwerp but we walked there instead.) On leaving the Gent train station we lost forty minutes struggling to find the correct tram in the maze that the Gent train station area has become (it's under renovation.) Turns out had we turned left out of the station instead of right, we wouldn't have gone through that fiasco. But arrive in Gent, we duly did.
Gent-Bruges tickets were easy to buy using a chip credit card at a station machine.
Bruges to Antwerp was simple since we'd pre-bought, as described, ABS THalys tickets that allowed us to go on any Bruges-Antwerp train the day before our Antwerp-Schiphol train left.
In Schiphol we bought tickets on bus 300 straight from the driver. Just be sure to note whether the bus is going to Haarlem or Amsterdam.
Now that we've done it, it turned out to be an interesting part of our travel experience.
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<< Gent-Bruges tickets were easy to buy using a chip credit card at a station machine. >>
Did you use a Chip and pin credit card? A chip and signature card? If the former and if you're an American, where did you get your chip and pin card?
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You can get a chip and pin card from Andrews credit Union (and a few other places now, too).
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NPR Business show said that you could ask your present ATM or credit card issuer if going to Europe if they will send you a card with the requisite chip or whatever needed to work in some European readers - not sure if this is possible with all cards but call your financial institution and ask about that.
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Mimar, sorry, should have indicated that it was a chip and pin card. Such cards are becoming more common in the US.
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In Schiphol we bought tickets on bus 300 straight from the driver. Just be sure to note whether the bus is going to Haarlem or Amsterdam.>
Yes that dandy bus direct to Haarlem is very unusual in that it at many places is on an elevated dedicated right away just like a metro - never seen anything like it - maybe it is a precursor to a proper metro in the future?
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