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Title: Effect of thermal cycling treatment on the mechanical properties of low-alloy chromium

Journal Article · · Strength Mater. (Engl. Transl.); (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01532361· OSTI ID:6088581

The authors report the results of a study of the effect of structural changes occurring during thermal cycling treatment in low-alloy chromium on mechanical properties. Low-alloy chromium containing 0.5 wt.% lanthanum and 0.25 wt.% tantalum was selected as test material, as well as unalloyed chromium. It is concluded that thermal cycling treatment of chromium and low-alloy chromium leads to an increase in flow stresses as the result of forming a strengthened nitrogen-containing surface layer. Alloying of chromium with lanthanum and tantalum, apart from increasing the low-temperature ductility, increases its resistance to thermal cycling. In alloy specimens subjected to prior impregnation with nitrogen, the effect ot thermal cycling strengthening and embrittlement is more clearly defined. In unalloyed chromium under the action of thermal cycling treatment, the region of strain aging shifts in the direction of lower temperature.

Research Organization:
Institute of Material Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the Ukranian SSR, Kiev
OSTI ID:
6088581
Journal Information:
Strength Mater. (Engl. Transl.); (United States), Vol. 17:2; Other Information: Translated from Problemy Prochnosti, No. 2, pp. 29-33, February, 1985
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English