Grain boundary segregation and intergranular fracture in molybdenum

The Royal Society - Tập 370 Số 1743 - Trang 431-458 - 1980
A.K. Revelly1, B.L. Eyre1
1Metallurgy Division, A.E.R.E., Harwell, Oxon, U. K.

Tóm tắt

The refractory group VIA metals generally exhibit intergranular brittleness when they are in the recrystallized condition. This causes severe problems in their fabrication and places major limitations on their practical application. The phenomenon, generally referred to as recrystallization embrittlement, results in large increases in the ductile-to-brittle transition temperature and a change in fracture mode in the lower shelf regime from cleavage to intergranular with a significant decrease in ductility. The embrittlement is widely considered to be associated with interstitial impurities but there have been few systematic studies to elucidate their effects. The present paper reports results from a systematic study of segregation and intergranular embrittlement in binary molybdenum-oxygen and ternary molybdenum-oxygen-carbon alloys. The experiments were carried out on ‘bamboo’ specimens containing a series of identical single grain boundaries traversing their cross-sections. Measurements have been made of the activation energy for oxygen segregation to grain boundaries in the binary molybdenum-oxygen alloys. The influence of carbon additions on the level of oxygen segregation has also been determined. In addition, the influence of oxygen segregation on the energy to fracture has been studied and this has involved quantitative measurements of the work of fracture and the contribution made by plastic deformation. Results from metallographic studies are also presented, showing the effects of segregation on fracture surface topography and dislocation structures immediately adjacent to the fracture surfaces. In discussing the results we consider the thermodynamics of oxygen segregation to grain boundaries and the role played by carbon in inhibiting segregation. It is proposed that carbon either increases the effective solubility of oxygen in molybdenum or acts as a trap for oxygen atoms. In either case the effect is to reduce the driving force for segregation. We also consider the influence of segregation on the work of fracture and show that the reduction in oxygen segregation resulting from the addition of carbon produces small increases in fracture energy. This increases the local stress to propagate a crack sufficiently to promote plastic deformation which blunts the crack tip. The consequent change in geometry reduces the stress concentration at the crack tip, thereby resulting in a large increase in the applied fracture stress and the work to fracture.

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