Room temperature fracture of FeCo
- Dartmouth Coll., Hanover, NH (United States). Thayer School of Engineering
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
FeCo is a B2 intermetallic compound which undergoes an order-disorder transformation. In this paper, the effects of changes in both constitutional and thermal disorder on the room temperature fracture of FeCo are presented. Tensile tests were performed on three compositions of FeCo, Fe[sub 30]CO[sub 70], Fe[sub 50]CO[sub 50] and Fe[sub 70]CO[sub 30]. The resulting fracture surfaces were examined by SEM and the grain boundary chemistry was investigated by Auger electron spectroscopy, AES. Ordered Fe[sub 50]CO[sub 50] and Fe[sub 70]CO[sub 30] were very battle, fracture occurring before yielding, with intergranular fracture occurring in most grains. In contrast, ordered Fe[sub 30]CO[sub 70] showed about 18% elongation and exhibited a dimple-type fracture. It was also found that disordering improved the ductility of each composition but had little influence on the fracture mode. AES showed that a low level of sulfur segregation was present at the grain boundaries, suggesting that sulfur segregation alone was not responsible for the brittle behavior of the ordered alloys.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84OR21400; FG02-87ER45311; AC05-76OR00033
- OSTI ID:
- 6714337
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9211127-3; ON: DE93008266
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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360103* -- Metals & Alloys-- Mechanical Properties
ALLOYS
AUGER ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
COBALT ALLOYS
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE
DUCTILITY
ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY
ELEMENTS
FRACTURE PROPERTIES
GRAIN BOUNDARIES
INTERMETALLIC COMPOUNDS
IRON ALLOYS
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
MICROSTRUCTURE
NONMETALS
SEGREGATION
SPECTROSCOPY
SULFUR
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