高钢级管线钢的组织特征和强韧性

背散射(EBSD)和扫描(SEM)电子显微镜及力学性能试验表明,微合金化X70、X80和X100管线钢的组织由针状铁素体、粒状贝氏体和少量下贝氏体组成;随钢的有效晶粒尺寸降低、贝氏体含量增加以及组织均匀性提高,高钢级管线钢的强韧性明显增加。

大别山锆石喇曼光谱初步研究

对北大别地区的鹿吐石、道士冲和南大别地区的三祖寺、双河片麻岩锆石进行了激光喇曼探针、背散射电子显微镜(BSE)观察和U、Th等微量元素的组成分析,发现锆石喇曼光谱波数和半高宽都能指示其蜕晶化程度,而大多数情况下B1g(υ3)峰更特征些。单颗粒锆石内部BSE图像与喇曼光谱能完全对应。通过锆石微区微量元素和喇曼探针分析发现,半高宽和Th/U比正相关,这是由于岩浆锆石在变质过程中不同程度的重结晶作用造成的。锆石重结晶作用是变质岩中锆石年龄和化学组成变化的主要原因。三祖寺片麻岩可能曾经遭受过燕山期的热事件扰动。

A yttrium-containing high-temperature titanium alloy additively manufactured by selective electron beam melting

A yttrium-containing high-temperature titanium alloy(Ti-6Al-2.7Sn-4Zr-0.4Mo-0.45Si-0.1Y, mass fraction, %) has been additively manufactured using selective electron beam melting(SEBM). The resulting microstructure and textures were studied using scanning electron microscopy(SEM), transmission electron microscopy(TEM), X-ray diffraction(XRD) and electron backscattered diffraction(EBSD) and compared with the conventionally manufactured form. A notable distinct difference of microstructures is that additive manufacturing by SEBM enables homogeneous precipitation of fine Y2O3 dispersoids in the size range of 50-250 nm throughout the as-fabricated alloy, despite the presence of just trace levels of oxygen(7×10-4, mass fraction) and yttrium(10-3, mass fraction) in the alloy. In contrast, the conventionally manufactured alloy shows inhomogeneously distributed coarse Y2O3 precipitates, including cracked or debonded Y2O3 particles.

Influence of exfoliation corrosion on tensile properties of a high strength Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloy

The influence of exfoliation corrosion on the tensile properties of a high strength Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloy was investigated by ambient temperature tensile testing, optical microscopy, transmission electron microscopy （TEM）, scanning electron microscopy （SEM） and electron backscatter diffraction （EBSD）. After exfoliation corrosion immersion, blisters and corrosion pits can be seen on the sheet surface, which lead to loss of materials and notches. A number of intergranular cracks are observed to initiate at the bottom of the corrosion-induced notches and propagate rapidly into the bulk materials during tensile. Consequently, exfoliation corrosion results in significant loss of strength and brittle fracture. EBSD results show that the crack propagation path is primarily along the grain boundaries with misorientation of-45°, and coincidence site lattice （CSL） boundaries are slightly more resistant to crack.

T91钢显微组织变化趋势的定量分析

用扫描电镜(SEM)、背散射电子显微镜(EBSD)及X射线衍射(XRD)等方法对不同运行阶段的T91钢管受热面析出碳化物颗粒度、亚结构及位错密度进行了定量测试分析。研究结果表明,在运行前期,随着组织老化程度的增加,T91钢析出碳化物颗粒的数量呈现出明显的上升趋势,运行后期到寿命末期(爆管失效),碳化物颗粒出现明显的聚集长大;T91钢运行前期位错密度下降明显,伴随着前期位错运动的结果是亚结构出现初期兼并,促成亚结构略有粗化;运行后期到失效阶段,T91钢位错密度基本上趋于稳定,亚结构快速兼并,亚晶界密度显著减少。

The application of back-scattered electron imaging for characterization of pearlitic steels

The microstructures of pearlitic steel wire rods and steel wires are commonly characterized by secondary electron imaging (SEI)technique using scanning electron microscopy(SEM).In this work,a back-scattered electron imaging(BSEI)method is proposed to determine the microstructures of undeformed and deformed pearlitic steels with nanometer scale pearlite lamellae.The results indicate that BSEI technique can characterize the pearlite lamellas veritably and is effective in quantitative measurement of the mean size of pearlite interlamellar spacing.To some extent,BSEI method is more suitable than SEI technique for studying undeformed and not severely deformed pearlitic steels.

Effect of direct quenching on microstructure and mechanical properties of medium-carbon Nb-bearing steel

The influence of direct quenching (DQ) on microstructure and mechanical properties of 0.19C-1.7Si-1.0 Mn-0.05Nb steel was studied. The microstructure and mechanical properties of reheat quenched and tempered (RQ&T) steel plate were compared with those of direct quenched and tempered (DQ&T) steel plates which were hot rolled at different finish rolling tem-peratures (1173 K and 1123 K), i.e., recrystallization-controlled-rolled direct-quenched (RCR&DQ) and controlled-rolled direct-quenched (CR&DQ), respectively. The strengths generally increased in the following order: RQ&T<RCR&DQ&T< CR&DQ&T. Strength differences between the CR&DQ&T and RQ&T conditions as high as 14% were observed at the tempered temperature of 573 K. The optical microscopy of the CR&DQ&T steel showed deformed grains elongated along the rolling direction, while complete equiaxed grains were visible in RQ&T and RCR&DQ&T steels. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and electron backscattering diffraction (EBSD) of the DQ steels showed smaller block width and higher density of dislocations. Inheritance of austenite deformation substructure by the martensite and differences in martensite block width were ruled out as major causes for the strength differences between DQ and RQ steels.

Evolution of microstructure and texture of cold-drawn polycrystalline Ag with low stacking fault energy

The evolution of microstructure and texture for drawn polycrystalline Ag was investigated by transmission electron microscopy and electron backscattering diffraction.The results show that there are deformation twins and some un-tangled discrete dislocations at low strains.When the strain is increased to 0.58,a lot of high density dislocation walls and microbands come into being.At the same time,some twins lose the twinning relationship of 60°<111>.At a strain of 0.94,both dislocation boundaries and twin boundaries will rotate to the axis direction of wires and the shear bands start to appear.When the strain is higher than 1.96,most of the boundaries are parallel to the drawn direction.Texture analysis indicates that with the strain increasing,the volume fraction of complex texture component decreases,but<111>and<100>texture components increase.However,the variation in the volume fraction of each texture component as strains is not evident when the strains are higher than 0.58.For polycrystalline Ag with low stacking fault energy,complex texture components are easily formed.

Bimodal plate structures induced by pulsed laser in duplex-phase Zr alloy

A duplex-phase Zr-2.5Nb alloy was treated by pulsed laser, followed by careful microstructural characterization using field emission gun scanning electron microscope and attached electron backscatter diffraction. Beneath the modification zones with common uniform α-plate structures(UPS), a layer of unreported bimodal α-plate structures(BPS) featured by coarse(submicron)plates forming multiple cores surrounded by dense fine(nanoscale) plates was found. Presence of such BPS is attributed to non-equilibrium thermodynamic conditions induced by the pulsed laser treatments. Limited diffusion of Nb due to the short pulse during laser heating allows β phases with distinctly different Nb contents to be presented: Nb-enriched prior β films and Nb-depleted β phases, transforming into the fine and the coarse plates during cooling, respectively. Orientation analyses show that both types of plates in the BPS are aroused essentially from a single β orientation, suggesting epitaxial growth of the Nb-depletedβ phases from the preexisting β films.

The process and mechanisms of metamorphism and deformation of hornblende-An example from the Hengshan Mountains, Shanxi Province

Hornblende＇s plastic and superplastic deformation mechanisms were studied on the basis of some new information obtained from amphibolite samples in the Hengshan Mountains （Hengshan, Shanxi, China）.For this purpose, the samples were measured and analyzed by optical microscope （OM）, electron probe microanalysis （EPMA）, transmission electron microscope （TEM） and electron backscattered diffraction （EBSD） respectively.Because localized strong strain is more than 1000%, it is presumed that structural superplastic deformation was developed during the ductile shearing process.It is calculated that deformation occurred at 650-679℃ and 0.770-0.914 GPa, based on the study of plagioclase-hornblende geothermometry and geobarometry.TEM images show that new hornblende grains developed few dislocations and hornblende crystals exhibit straight grain boundaries.EBSD of strongly deformed hornblendes reveals a fabric dominated by a {100} lattice preferred orientation （LPO）, indicative of new grain recrystallization along the lineation direction （X axis）.Thus superplastic deformation of hornblendes from the Hengshan Mountains was developed by mainly solid-state diffusive mass transfer and grain boundary sliding.

Microstructure and texture evolution of cold drawing <110> single crystal copper

By means of electron backscattering diffraction and transmission electron microscopy the microstructure and texture of drawn single crystal copper with initial orientation （110） parallel to axial direction have been investigated in the present work. In or- der to analyze the effect of initial orientation on microstructure and texture of drawn copper, the results of the drawn （110） sin- gle crystal copper wires have been compared with （100） and （111） single crystal copper wires. It is found that the grain subdi- vision of （110） single crystal is more evident than that of （100） and （111）, and the textures consisting of （111） and （100） abruptly form in the drawn （110） single crystal. At high strains, due to shear strain, the distribution of fiber textures is imho- mogenous along the radial direction of drawn （110） single crystal copper wires. （100） is near the surface and （111） is at the center. The microstructure results of drawn （110） single crystal show that at low strains, it can be characterized as two kinds of geometrically necessary boundaries with noncrystalline character. At medium strains, S bands can be observed. At high strains, lamellar boundaries form. Mean misofientation and average spacing of dislocation boundary are larger in drawn （110） single crystal, as compared with （111） and （100）. In drawn （110） single crystal with high strains, the bimodal distribution forms at lower strains than in drawn （100） single crystal, which is because the dislocation boundaries with high angle are contributed by not only the boundary between （111） and （100） fiber textures but also the boundary in （111） or （100） texture.

Investigation on martensitic steel using a quenching-partitioning-tempering process via electron backscatter diffraction analysis

A new quenching-partitioning-tempering （Q-P-T） process was designed based on the recently developed quenching and partitioning （ ＆ P） treatment by Speer et al. The orientation relationships （ORs） of martensite （α） in Q-P-T steel tempered under different conditions were investigated using a scanning electron microscope with an electron backscatter diffraction unit. The morphology and crystallography of lath martensite within a packet were analyzed. Martensites exhibiting an initial austenite （y） grain in the orientation image map of different samples were chosen and their { 111 }α pole figures were drawn. The pole figures were fitted according to the ideal Kurdjumov-Sachs （K-S） and Nishiyama-Wasserman （N-W） ORs, which were calculated using Matlab and with a y crystal-oriented （001）γ[100]γ as the reference frame. The martensite OR in the Q-P-T steel follows both the K-S and N-W ORs; however, the K-S OR is predominant. This characteristic does not change in the samples further tempered at different temperatures.

Applications of scanning electron microscopy in earth sciences

This paper expounds upon the basic principle of scanning electron microscopy(SEM),the main features of image types,and different signals,and the applications and prospects in earth sciences research are reviewed.High-resolution field emission SEM allows observation and investigation of a very fine micro area in situ.Using low-vacuum mode SEM,geological insulating samples can be analyzed directly without coating,demonstrating the wide application prospect.Combined with backscatter detector(BSE),energy dispersal X-ray spectroscopy(EDS),cathodoluminescence spectrometry(CL),and electron back-scattering diffraction(EBSD),SEM can yield multiple types of information about geological samples at the same time,such as superficial microstructure,CL analysis,BSE image,component analysis,and crystal structure features.In this paper,we use examples to discuss the geological application of SEM.We stress that we should not only focus on the CL image analysis,but strengthen CL spectrum analyses of minerals.These results will effectively reveal the mineral crystal lattice defects and trace element composition and can help to reconstruct mineral growth conditions precisely.

Microstructures and deformation mechanisms of hornblende in Guandi complex,the Western Hills,Beijing

Multiple methods were applied to study the deformation characteristics of hornblende in Archean plagioamphibolite mylonite from the Western Hills(Beijing),including optical microscopy(OM),electron backscatter diffraction(EBSD),transmission electron microscopy(TEM),and electron probe microanalysis(EPMA).The hornblendes are σ and δ type porphyroclasts with the new-born needle shaped grains as their tails.The analysis of lattice preferred orientation(LPO) of both the porphyroclasts and the new-born grains shows that the main slip system of the deformed hornblende is(100)<001>,suggesting that the fabric characteristics of new-born grains inherit that of porphyroclasts.Sub-microstructures show the porphyroclast core is dominated by dislocation tangle,little or no dislocations in the new-born grains,and the subgrains confined by dislocations in the transition zone between porphyroclasts and new-born grains.By using plagioclase-hornblende geothermometry and hornblende geobarometry,the estimated temperature and pressure of porphyroclasts are 675.3-702.9℃ and 0.29-0.41 GPa and those of new-born grains are 614.1-679.0℃ and 0.11-0.31 GPa.The bulging recrystallization is summarized as deformation mechanisms of hornblende by the discussions of the microstructures,EBSD fabric,sub-microstructures,and the deformed temperature and pressure.