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Precipitation behavior of Widmanstätten O phase associated with interface in aged Ti2AlNb-based alloys

Highlights: • Ball milling tunes the morphology of primary O phase in Ti{sub 2}AlNb alloys. • The interface of Widmanstatten B2 and O affects the hardness of the alloys. • The entire precipitation process of Widmanstatten O phase is reported. - Abstract: Ti{sub 2}AlNb-based alloys, spark plasma sintered from ball-milled octahedral Ti-22Al-25Nb powder, are aged for 0–3 h in this study. Ball milling tunes the morphology of primary orthorhombic (O) phase to be columnar, and improves the mechanical properties of the alloys. The evolution of the Widmanstätten O phase, which brought main precipitation strengthening effect, is then investigated during the ageing process. The hardness of the alloys is improved by an increasing content of O phase and the reduced width of the Widmanstätten O phase; in addition, the length of Widmanstätten O phase also brings positive effect on the hardness, which indicates that the hardness is strongly coupled with the interface of the Widmanstätten O precipitates and B2 matrix. By means of transmission electron microscopy observation, the precipitation of O initials with an amorphous state, followed by a coherent interface between (110){sub B2} and (002){sub O}, which is destroyed to be semi-coherent and incoherent during the next ageing stage.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗

Effects of long-term thermal aging on bulk and local mechanical behavior of ferritic-austenitic duplex stainless steels

Ferritic-austenitic duplex stainless steels (DSS) undergo significant thermal aging embrittlement in service in light water reactors. Specimens of cast CF–3 and CF–8 DSS have been laboratory aged for up to 17,200 h at four different temperatures (280, 320, 360, 400 °C) in order to characterize the aging evolution and mechanical properties. Standard Charpy V-Notch (CVN) impact testing and tensile testing are employed to measure the progression of embrittlement of the steels. Concurrently, nanoindentation measurements are performed to measure the hardening of the individual ferrite and austenite phases. Atom probe tomography (APT) analysis of the ferrite and austenite phases elucidates the relationship between spinodal decomposition of the ferrite and the mechanical effects of aging. The results are discussed to relate the effects of the local microstructure and property changes in the ferrite phase on the overall bulk mechanical evolution of these steels.

Schwarm, Samuel C.↗