The effect of oxygen on ball milling of a near-equiatomic FeV sigma phase
- CEMDRX, Physics Department, University of Coimbra, P-3004-516 Coimbra (Portugal)
- Institut de Physique de Rennes, UMR UR1-CNRS 6251, Universite de Rennes I, Campus de Beaulieu, Bat. 11A, F-35042 Rennes Cedex (France)
- Laboratoire de Chimie du Solide Mineral, UMR CNRS 7555, Nancy-Universite, BP239, F-54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex (France)
A coarse-grained near-equiatomic tetragonal sigma phase Fe{sub 48}V{sub 52} is milled in argon in a vibratory mill with a small steady air supply. The oxygen content increases regularly at a rate of about 0.25 at. %/h. Besides a classical short step, during which the sigma phase transforms into an alpha phase, two main steps occur. During the first step, from {approx}40 to {approx}140 h of milling, the bcc alpha phase is enriched in iron and heterogeneous because of a preferential oxidation of vanadium atoms. The bcc phase is partially amorphized as it is when milling in the absence of oxygen and nanocrystalline vanadium oxides do form. The second step is characterized by the coarsening of vanadium oxide particles and by the formation of ternary ferrous oxides. The results are discussed in the light of a vacancy mechanism proposed recently to account for the high stability of oxide nanoclusters in oxide dispersion strengthened Fe-based alloys processed by ball milling.
- OSTI ID:
- 21185875
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 104, Issue 8; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3005876; (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0021-8979
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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