The hardness variation of two kinds of alloys with 36 wt pct W content and 7/3, 9/1 Ni-to-Fe ratios during strain aging at 800℃ was studied. The microstructures of the aged alloys were analyzed by X-ray diffraction a...The hardness variation of two kinds of alloys with 36 wt pct W content and 7/3, 9/1 Ni-to-Fe ratios during strain aging at 800℃ was studied. The microstructures of the aged alloys were analyzed by X-ray diffraction and TEM. The results show that the strain aging hardness of W-Ni-Fe ternary alloy with 7/3 Ni-to-Fe ratio decreases monotonically with the increase of aging time. Under the same conditions, the hardness of 9/1 Ni-to-Fe ratio alloy decreases in the initial aging stage, but then increases as aging process goes on. X ray diffraction and TEM analysis show that there is not any precipitation depositing from the alloy with 7/3 Ni-to-Fe ratio during aging. The monotonic decrease in hardness of this alloy during aging process results from the recovery, recrystallization and solid solubility declining. In the alloy of 9/1 Ni-to-Fe ratio, the fine β phase precipitates dispersively during aging which hardens the alloy. The two different kinds of mechanisms (the softening one and the hardening one) decide the hardness variation of the alloy with 9/1 Ni-to-Fe ratio mentioned above.展开更多
In this study, Cu was added as the third additive to lower the sintering temperature of W-Ni-Fe alloy. By adding 2 wt pct Cu, a dense 93W-3.5Ni-l.5Fe-2.0Cu tungsten alloy was obtained by hot-pressing at a low temperat...In this study, Cu was added as the third additive to lower the sintering temperature of W-Ni-Fe alloy. By adding 2 wt pct Cu, a dense 93W-3.5Ni-l.5Fe-2.0Cu tungsten alloy was obtained by hot-pressing at a low temperature of 1573 K which is a process of liquid-phase sintering. As a result, the morphology of W-Ni-Fe alloy changed obviously after the addition of Cu and the alloy had-higher relative density and rupture strength. The mechanism of the densification of W-Ni-Fe-Cu alloy at the low temperature.was then mainly investigated. It was found that, part sintering activators Ni and Fe could exist in liquid form at 1573 K due to the addition of Cu, which made it easy for Ni and Fe to dissolve W and thus the full densification of W-Ni-Fe-Cu alloy at the low temperature was realized.展开更多
MA W-Ni-Fe alloyed powder compact was sintered by microwave technology, and the influence of microwave sintering on consolidation of W-Ni-Fe alloy was studied. The fracture morphology and microstructure of alloys were...MA W-Ni-Fe alloyed powder compact was sintered by microwave technology, and the influence of microwave sintering on consolidation of W-Ni-Fe alloy was studied. The fracture morphology and microstructure of alloys were measured by SEM and metallurgical microscope. The experimental results showed that microwave sintering promoted the densification of MA W-Ni-Fe alloyed powder quickly with the higher heating rate. The density of the sintered samples increased with the increase of sintering temperature, and significant densification shrinkage occured at 1300 ~ 1400°C. The tungsten grain grew rapidly at 1450°C. When the alloy was microwave sintered at 1550°C, the inner structure of alloy is more homogeneous, the average W grain size is about 15 μm, and the relative density of sintered specimen is 99%.展开更多
Spark plasma sintering method (SPS) was used to consolidate mixed W-5.6Ni-1.4Fe (mass fraction, %) powders from commercial fine elemental powders, and both the densification behavior and microstructure evolution i...Spark plasma sintering method (SPS) was used to consolidate mixed W-5.6Ni-1.4Fe (mass fraction, %) powders from commercial fine elemental powders, and both the densification behavior and microstructure evolution in sintering were investigated at different heating rates. The results show that the SPS densification process can be divided into three stages. At the initial unshrinking stage, fast heating generates instantaneous discharge and locally inhomogeneous temperature distribution in solid-state powder particles, enhancing later densification; during the intermediate solid state sintering stage, diffusion is more sufficient in the slow-heated SPS process; at the final transient liquid-phase sintering stage, tungsten grains become sphered and coarsen rapidly, but fast heating helps maintain rather small grain sizes.展开更多
The influence of high temperature repressing treatment on the segregation of phosphorus in the 93W alloy was carefully investigated by means of Auger electron spectroscope,EPMA, TEM and SEM.The segregation of phosphor...The influence of high temperature repressing treatment on the segregation of phosphorus in the 93W alloy was carefully investigated by means of Auger electron spectroscope,EPMA, TEM and SEM.The segregation of phosphorus has been observed at the tungsten-tungsten grain boundaries,particularly at the tungsten-matrix interphases when the specimens were kept at the temperature in the range of 1200—1500℃ ,followed by furnace cooling.However, no segregation of phosphorus was observed at the interfaces after the specimens were re- pressed at the range of temperature,followed by furnace cooling.After investigation,the dis- locations in the matrix phase of as-repressed specimens directly influenced the phosphorus segregation to the interfaces.After annealing,the mechanical properties were reduced because of the phosphorus segregation at the interface boundaries.展开更多
The microstructure and properties of the 93W-4Ni-2Co-1Fe(mass fraction,%) tungsten heavy alloys prepared by mechanical alloying and electric current activated sintering from mixed elemental powders were investigated.A...The microstructure and properties of the 93W-4Ni-2Co-1Fe(mass fraction,%) tungsten heavy alloys prepared by mechanical alloying and electric current activated sintering from mixed elemental powders were investigated.After 15 h milling,the average W grain size in the powders is decreased to 120 nm.For the powders milled for 15 h,the density,hardness and transverse rupture strength of the alloys sintered only by an intensive pulse electric current are the maximum.When the total sintering time keeps constant,the properties of the sintered alloys can be obviously improved by optimizing the sintering time of pulse-and constant-currents.A bulk ultrafine alloy with an average W grain size of about 340 nm can be obtained by sintering 15 h-milled powders in a total sintering time of 6 min.The corresponding sintered density,hardness and transverse rupture strength reach 16.78 g /cm3,HRA84.3 and 968 MPa,respectively.展开更多
The corrosion behaviors of extrusion, under-aged, peaked-aged and over-aged WE93 alloys in Na HSO3 solutions were investigated by optical microscopy(OM), scanning electron microscopy(SEM) and X-ray diffraction(XR...The corrosion behaviors of extrusion, under-aged, peaked-aged and over-aged WE93 alloys in Na HSO3 solutions were investigated by optical microscopy(OM), scanning electron microscopy(SEM) and X-ray diffraction(XRD).The weight loss rates, corrosion morphologies and polarization curves were analyzed.The peak-aged specimen in Na HSO3 salt spray had the highest corrosion rate of 0.9787 mg/cm2/d, while extrusion specimen led to the lowest of 0.2184 mg/cm2/d.The specimens could be arranged in decreasing order of corrosion rates: extrusion 〈under-aged〈over-aged〈peak-aged. Polarization curves also gave effective evaluation of corrosion rates in agreement. The NaHSO3 played a great role in the corrosion behaviors of WE93 alloys. The main reasons were that HSO3- developed a reaction: O2+2HSO3 +2e→2HSO42→2H++2SO42- to generate H+, accelerating the process of corrosion reaction. SO4 2- stimulated corrosion and led to an autocatalytic type of reaction: MgZ++SO4^2-+7H2O→MgSO4-7H2O. XRD characterized that Mg(OH)2 and MgSO4·7H2O were the main corrosion products.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No.59971007.
文摘The hardness variation of two kinds of alloys with 36 wt pct W content and 7/3, 9/1 Ni-to-Fe ratios during strain aging at 800℃ was studied. The microstructures of the aged alloys were analyzed by X-ray diffraction and TEM. The results show that the strain aging hardness of W-Ni-Fe ternary alloy with 7/3 Ni-to-Fe ratio decreases monotonically with the increase of aging time. Under the same conditions, the hardness of 9/1 Ni-to-Fe ratio alloy decreases in the initial aging stage, but then increases as aging process goes on. X ray diffraction and TEM analysis show that there is not any precipitation depositing from the alloy with 7/3 Ni-to-Fe ratio during aging. The monotonic decrease in hardness of this alloy during aging process results from the recovery, recrystallization and solid solubility declining. In the alloy of 9/1 Ni-to-Fe ratio, the fine β phase precipitates dispersively during aging which hardens the alloy. The two different kinds of mechanisms (the softening one and the hardening one) decide the hardness variation of the alloy with 9/1 Ni-to-Fe ratio mentioned above.
文摘In this study, Cu was added as the third additive to lower the sintering temperature of W-Ni-Fe alloy. By adding 2 wt pct Cu, a dense 93W-3.5Ni-l.5Fe-2.0Cu tungsten alloy was obtained by hot-pressing at a low temperature of 1573 K which is a process of liquid-phase sintering. As a result, the morphology of W-Ni-Fe alloy changed obviously after the addition of Cu and the alloy had-higher relative density and rupture strength. The mechanism of the densification of W-Ni-Fe-Cu alloy at the low temperature.was then mainly investigated. It was found that, part sintering activators Ni and Fe could exist in liquid form at 1573 K due to the addition of Cu, which made it easy for Ni and Fe to dissolve W and thus the full densification of W-Ni-Fe-Cu alloy at the low temperature was realized.
文摘MA W-Ni-Fe alloyed powder compact was sintered by microwave technology, and the influence of microwave sintering on consolidation of W-Ni-Fe alloy was studied. The fracture morphology and microstructure of alloys were measured by SEM and metallurgical microscope. The experimental results showed that microwave sintering promoted the densification of MA W-Ni-Fe alloyed powder quickly with the higher heating rate. The density of the sintered samples increased with the increase of sintering temperature, and significant densification shrinkage occured at 1300 ~ 1400°C. The tungsten grain grew rapidly at 1450°C. When the alloy was microwave sintered at 1550°C, the inner structure of alloy is more homogeneous, the average W grain size is about 15 μm, and the relative density of sintered specimen is 99%.
基金Project (2010CB635104) supported by the National Basic Research Program of ChinaProject (2007AA03Z112) supported by the National High-Tech Research and Development Program of China+2 种基金Project (9140A18040709JW1601) supported by the Advanced Research Fund of DOD, ChinaProject (2009ZZ0019) supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, ChinaProject (NCET-10-0364) supported by the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, China
文摘Spark plasma sintering method (SPS) was used to consolidate mixed W-5.6Ni-1.4Fe (mass fraction, %) powders from commercial fine elemental powders, and both the densification behavior and microstructure evolution in sintering were investigated at different heating rates. The results show that the SPS densification process can be divided into three stages. At the initial unshrinking stage, fast heating generates instantaneous discharge and locally inhomogeneous temperature distribution in solid-state powder particles, enhancing later densification; during the intermediate solid state sintering stage, diffusion is more sufficient in the slow-heated SPS process; at the final transient liquid-phase sintering stage, tungsten grains become sphered and coarsen rapidly, but fast heating helps maintain rather small grain sizes.
文摘The influence of high temperature repressing treatment on the segregation of phosphorus in the 93W alloy was carefully investigated by means of Auger electron spectroscope,EPMA, TEM and SEM.The segregation of phosphorus has been observed at the tungsten-tungsten grain boundaries,particularly at the tungsten-matrix interphases when the specimens were kept at the temperature in the range of 1200—1500℃ ,followed by furnace cooling.However, no segregation of phosphorus was observed at the interfaces after the specimens were re- pressed at the range of temperature,followed by furnace cooling.After investigation,the dis- locations in the matrix phase of as-repressed specimens directly influenced the phosphorus segregation to the interfaces.After annealing,the mechanical properties were reduced because of the phosphorus segregation at the interface boundaries.
基金Project(2007CB616905) supported by the National Basic Research Program of ChinaProject(2007AA03Z112) supported by the National High-tech Research and Development Program of China+1 种基金Project(x2jqB6080210) supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province,ChinaProject(9140A18040709JW1601) supported by the Advanced Research Fund of Department of Defense,China
文摘The microstructure and properties of the 93W-4Ni-2Co-1Fe(mass fraction,%) tungsten heavy alloys prepared by mechanical alloying and electric current activated sintering from mixed elemental powders were investigated.After 15 h milling,the average W grain size in the powders is decreased to 120 nm.For the powders milled for 15 h,the density,hardness and transverse rupture strength of the alloys sintered only by an intensive pulse electric current are the maximum.When the total sintering time keeps constant,the properties of the sintered alloys can be obviously improved by optimizing the sintering time of pulse-and constant-currents.A bulk ultrafine alloy with an average W grain size of about 340 nm can be obtained by sintering 15 h-milled powders in a total sintering time of 6 min.The corresponding sintered density,hardness and transverse rupture strength reach 16.78 g /cm3,HRA84.3 and 968 MPa,respectively.
基金Project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(51204020)National Basic Research Program of China(2013CB632202,2013CB632205)
文摘The corrosion behaviors of extrusion, under-aged, peaked-aged and over-aged WE93 alloys in Na HSO3 solutions were investigated by optical microscopy(OM), scanning electron microscopy(SEM) and X-ray diffraction(XRD).The weight loss rates, corrosion morphologies and polarization curves were analyzed.The peak-aged specimen in Na HSO3 salt spray had the highest corrosion rate of 0.9787 mg/cm2/d, while extrusion specimen led to the lowest of 0.2184 mg/cm2/d.The specimens could be arranged in decreasing order of corrosion rates: extrusion 〈under-aged〈over-aged〈peak-aged. Polarization curves also gave effective evaluation of corrosion rates in agreement. The NaHSO3 played a great role in the corrosion behaviors of WE93 alloys. The main reasons were that HSO3- developed a reaction: O2+2HSO3 +2e→2HSO42→2H++2SO42- to generate H+, accelerating the process of corrosion reaction. SO4 2- stimulated corrosion and led to an autocatalytic type of reaction: MgZ++SO4^2-+7H2O→MgSO4-7H2O. XRD characterized that Mg(OH)2 and MgSO4·7H2O were the main corrosion products.