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Microstructural and mechanical characterisation of Fe-14Cr-0.22Hf alloy fabricated by spark plasma sintering

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posted on 2018-06-05, 10:28 authored by Maria A. Auger, Yina Huang, Hongtao ZhangHongtao Zhang, C.A. Jones, Zuliang Hong, M.P. Moody, Steve G. Roberts, Patrick S. Grant
Fe-14Cr pre-alloyed powder and pure Hf powder were mechanically alloyed to produce powder with nominal composition Fe-14Cr-0.22Hf (wt. %) that was consolidated by the spark plasma sintering (SPS) technique in order to investigate the ability of Hf to produce a nanometric dispersion of oxide particles in a ferritic matrix. Comprehensive microstructural and mechanical characterisation of the as-milled powder and the consolidated material was performed using electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, atom probe tomography and indentation techniques. It was shown that Hf additions can effectively produce, by internal oxidation, a fine scale dispersion of Hf-O nanoparticles in the consolidated material. A uniform grain structure was produced in the alloy. Although the nanoparticle dispersion was not homogeneous at the finest scale, the resulting dispersion strengthening contributed significantly to the hardness. According to these results, internal oxidation of reactive elements rather than direct addition of oxides may offer additional opportunities in the design and development of oxide dispersion strengthened steels.

Funding

The authors acknowledge funding by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through Grant Numbers EP/H018921/1 and EP/P006566/1 (MAPP), Diamond Light Source for access to beamline I11 (Proposal No. EE10597) and the use of the EPSRC funded National Chemical Database Service hosted by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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School

  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Materials

Published in

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

Citation

AUGER, M.A. ... et al, 2018. Microstructural and mechanical characterisation of Fe-14Cr-0.22Hf alloy fabricated by spark plasma sintering. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 762, pp.678-687.

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© Elsevier

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2018-05-17

Publication date

2018

Notes

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Journal of Alloys and Compounds and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2018.05.196.

ISSN

0925-8388

Language

  • en