Grain Refinement through Thermal Cycling in an Fe-Ni-Ti Cryogenic Alloy.

Abstract

A thermal cycling technique which allows the grain refinement of Fe-12Ni-0.25Ti alloy in four cycles has been developed. The process consists of alternate annealing in gamma range and (alpha + gamma) range with intermediate air cooling. The transformation, microstructures and cryogenic mechanical properties on each cycling step are described. Due to the ultrafine grain size, the ductile-brittle transition temperature of this ferritic alloy in Charpy impact testing was suppressed below 6K. In fracture toughness testing at 77K, the mode of fracture was altered from brittle quasi-cleavage to complete ductile rupture through the grain refining. (Modified author abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0775510

Entities

People

  • J. W. Morris Jr.
  • Shilei Jin
  • V. F. Zackay

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Annealing
  • Ductile Brittle Transition
  • Grain Size
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Microstructure
  • Physical Properties
  • Refining
  • Toughness
  • Transition Temperature
  • Transitions
  • Ultrafines

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Metallurgy
  • Powder metallurgy of Titanium alloys.