High temperature neutron diffraction study of the order-disorder transition in TiC1−x

Autor: N. Lorenzelli, P. Convert, C. H. de Novion, V. Moisy-Maurice
Rok vydání: 1982
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Zdroj: Acta Metallurgica. 30:1769-1779
ISSN: 0001-6160
DOI: 10.1016/0001-6160(82)90093-1
Popis: High temperature neutron diffraction experiments on TiC1−x samples have allowed to determine from the thermal dependence of the (1/2 1/2 1/2), (3/2 1/2 1/2) and (3/2 3/2 1/2) superlattice reflexions the transition temperatures due to long-range ordering of carbon vacancies: 765° ± 5°C for TiC0.58. 785° ± 5°Cfor TiC0.63and 770° ± 5°Cfor TiC0.67. For the first composition, the transition is practically of second order type with a critical coefficient β = 0.26 ± 0.03, suggesting predominant short-range interactions between carbons and vacancies. A preliminary study of the kinetics of longrange ordering was performed between 650° and 750°C for TiC0.63: at 735°C, the average ordered domain size D increases with time t as D3.24 − D30240 ∼- Ct; the process is thermally activated with an apparent activation energy of 3.7± 0.2 eV. The kinetics of ordering decrease rapidly with increasing carbon content. The results are discussed in terms of recent theories of order-disorder and antiphase domain coarsening in alloys.
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