Mechanical properties of carbon steel depending on the rate of the dose build-up of nitrogen and argon ions.

Autor: Vorob'ev, V., Bykov, P., Bayankin, V., Shushkov, A., Vakhrushev, A.
Zdroj: Physics of Metals & Metallography; Aug2014, Vol. 115 Issue 8, p800-804, 5p
Abstrakt: The effect of pulsed irradiation with argons and nitrogen ions on the mechanical properties, morphology, and structure of the surface layers of carbon steel St3 (0.2% C, 0.4% Mn, 0.15% Si, and Fe for balance) has been investigated depending on the rate of dose build-up at an average ion current density of 10, 20, and 40 μA/cm. It has been established that the fatigue life and microhardness of surface layers increase in the entire studied range of dose build-up rates. This seems to be due to the hardening of the surface layers, which resulted from the generation of radiation defects and the irradiation-dynamic effect of fast ions. The sample irradiated by argon ions at the lowest of the selected dose build-up rates j = 10 μA/cm withstands the largest number of cycles to failure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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