The Effects of the Withdrawal Rate and Heat Treatment on the Microstructure of Directionally Solidified Nb-14Si-24Ti Alloy

Autor: Wang Ligang, Ding Fei, Yuan Sainan, Jia Lina, Zhang Hu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: High Temperature Materials and Processes, Vol 32, Iss 2, Pp 113-118 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0334-6455
2191-0324
DOI: 10.1515/htmp-2012-0030
Popis: In this work, an Nb-14Si-24Ti alloy (at.%) was prepared by liquid-metal-cooled directional solidification (DS) and then heat treated (HT) at 1450°C for 100 h. The effects of the withdrawal rate and heat treatment on the microstructure were investigated. The results show that the DS samples consisted of NbSS dendrites, Nb3Si blocks and eutectic NbSS/Nb3Si. As the withdrawal rate increased, the microstructure became finer, the volume fraction of eutectic NbSS/Nb3Si increased and the morphology of eutectic cell transformed from petaloid to regularly arranged granular morphology. The microstructure of the HT samples consisted of NbSS and Nb3Si. The metastable phase of Nb3Si did not discompose through the eutectoid reaction. The dendritic NbSSconnected through diffraction and the secondary dendrite arm got coarser. The boundary of eutectic NbSS/Nb3Si became blurry and the black Ti-rich phase of the DS samples in this region disappeared. The Nb3Si connected to form the continuous matrix. The granular NbSS of eutectics spheroidized and the lamellar NbSS of eutectic interconnected and became more bending distributed uniformly in the Nb3Si matrix.
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