Effect of oxidizing environment on mechanical properties of molybdenum and TZM
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
The effect of environment on mechanical properties of molybdenum and TZM was investigated in low-pressure (1.3-mPa) oxygen at 1150/sup 0/C. Specimens of TZM picked up oxygen and lost carbon. The oxygen concentration increases linearly with exposure time, indicating that the chemisorption of oxygen molecules at the specimen surface, rather than bulk diffusion, controls the kinetics of oxygen absorption at 1150/sup 0/C. Specimens of TZM increase in tensile strength and decrease in ductility with increasing oxygen content. Exposed TZM loses its ductility at elevated temperatures at an oxygen level of 500 ppM. The embrittlement is due to the formation of zones or oxide precipitates, which harden the alloy and promote the brittle fracture associated with cleavage and grain-boundary separation. Unalloyed molybdenum responds to the oxidizing environment quite differently from TZM. The molybdenum (containing no active element such as Ti and Zr) showed no internal oxidation at 1150/sup 0/C. Instead, our results indicate that a trace of oxygen penetrated into molybdenum through its grain boundaries. This penetration raises the ductile-to-brittle transition temperature of molybdenum by 200/sup 0/C lowers the ductility above 900/sup 0/C. The ductility of oxygen-exposed molybdenum is virtually unaffected in the temperature range from 400 to 900/sup 0/C. A ductility minimum (10%) is observed at 1350/sup 0/C because of dynamic embrittlement effects; that is, diffusion of oxygen to grain boundaries or crack tips where high triaxial states of stress are generated during plastic deformation. This embrittlement can be totally eliminated by an increase in strain rate.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 6580614
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL-5431
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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CARBON ADDITIONS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
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DUCTILE-BRITTLE TRANSITIONS
ELEMENTS
FLUIDS
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
METALS
MOLYBDENUM
NONMETALS
OXIDATION
OXYGEN
REFRACTORY METALS
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SORPTION
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TITANIUM ALLOYS
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
VERY HIGH TEMPERATURE
ZIRCONIUM ADDITIONS
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