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Iron‐Rich Iron‐Titanium‐Silicon Alloys with Strengthening Intermetallic Laves Phase Precipitates
Author(s) -
Löffler Falk,
Palm Martin,
Sauthoff Gerhard
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
steel research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.603
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1869-344X
pISSN - 1611-3683
DOI - 10.1002/srin.200405840
Subject(s) - materials science , intermetallic , metallurgy , laves phase , brittleness , precipitation , ternary operation , yield (engineering) , titanium , phase (matter) , silicon , alloy , chemistry , physics , organic chemistry , meteorology , computer science , programming language
Two‐phase ternary Fe‐Ti‐Si alloys with Si contents from 2 to 16 at.% and Ti contents from 2 to 28 at.% were studied with respect to room temperature hardness, fracture strain and yield stress at room and higher temperatures up to 1150 °C. In addition oxidation was checked at temperatures between 400 and 1150 °C. The alloys are strengthened by precipitation of the stable Laves phase (Fe,Si) 2 Ti which is a hard and brittle intermetallic phase. The yield stress as well as the brittle‐to‐ductile transition temperature (BDTT) increase with increasing Ti content. Yield stresses up to about 1400 MPa and BDTT between 100 °C and 600 °C with fracture strains of the order of 1 % below BDTT were achieved. The observed short‐term oxidation performance at temperatures up to 1150 °C compares favourably with that of Fe‐AI alloys with high Al contents.