THE USE OF FAST ELECTRONS IN METALLOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATIONS,

Abstract

Ionization and mixing of atoms during electron bombardment may affect phase transformations in alloys containing phases with intermediate properties, ionic bonds, or metastable bonds. It is shown that the joint radiative-thermal effect, including the heating during irradiation, leads to a phase transformation in white iron. The disintegrating cementite is replaced by ferrite with spheroidal graphite. It is assumed that, in the processes being studied the function of the nonlocal warmup under an electron beam is the same as that of local bursts of heat during neutron irradiation, and that this function is reduced to acceleration of the diffusion processes.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 28, 1968
Accession Number
AD0679366

Entities

People

  • I. M. Pronman

Organizations

  • National Air and Space Intelligence Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Diffusion
  • Electron Beams
  • Electrons
  • Graphitic Materials
  • Heat Energy
  • Ionic Bonds
  • Ionization
  • Neutron Bombardment
  • Phase Transformations

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Plasma Physics.
  • Powder metallurgy of Titanium alloys.
  • Thermal Physics or Thermal Science.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics