Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-qsmjn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-19T05:15:08.678Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Measurement of ZrC properties up to 5000 K by fast electrical pulse heating method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Alexander I. Savvatimskiy ,
Sergey V. Onufriev  and
Sergey A. Muboyadzhyan
Alexander I. Savvatimskiy*
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Thermophysics, Joint Institute for High Temperatures of RAS, Moscow 125412, Russia
Sergey V. Onufriev
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Thermophysics, Joint Institute for High Temperatures of RAS, Moscow 125412, Russia
Sergey A. Muboyadzhyan
Affiliation:
Laboratory for technology surface and protective coatings for metallic materials, All-Russian Institute of Aviation Materials, Moscow 105005, Russia
*
a)Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: savva@iht.mpei.ac.ru
Get access

Abstract

Sintered zirconium carbide (C/Zr ≈ 0.95) was studied by pulsed electrical heating method with microsecond duration. Thermophysical properties such as Joule energy, heat of melting, the specific heat, and electrical resistance were measured in the temperature range of 2500–5000 K by this method for the first time. The steep increase of the specific heat just before melting may be associated with the formation of nonequilibrium pairs point Frenkel defects at high temperatures under fast heating. It was established that the melting of the carbide occurs in the temperature range: solidus—3450 K and liquidus—3850 K, that is close to the values presented in some equilibrium phase diagrams of the system Zr–C. This means that there is no shift of the phase transition points at the heating rates up to 108 K/s, and makes it possible to use this method for the study of high temperature behavior of the complex substances. The comparison of the data of measured properties with the literature data is provided.

Keywords

ZrC ceramictemperaturephase transformationthermophysical properties
Type
Articles
Information
Journal of Materials Research , Volume 32 , Issue 7 , 14 April 2017 , pp. 1287 - 1294
Check for updates
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2017 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

Contributing Editor: Yanchun Zhou

References

REFERENCES

Jackson, H.F. and Lee, W.E.: Properties and characteristics of ZrC. In Comprehensive Nuclear Materials, Jackson, H.F., ed. (Elsevier Ltd, London, 2012); pp. 339–369.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Katoh, Y., Vasudevamurthy, G., Nozawa, T., and Snead, L.L.: Properties of zirconium carbide for nuclear fuel applications. J. Nucl. Mater. 441, 718 (2013).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Guillermet, A.F.: Analysis of thermochemical properties and phase stability in the zirconium-carbon system. J. Alloys Compd. 217, 69 (1995).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jackson, H.F., Jayaseelan, D.D., Lee, W.E., Reece, M.J., Inam, F., Manara, D., Perinetti-Casoni, C., De Bruycker, F., and Boboridis, K.: Laser melting of spark plasma-sintered zirconium carbide: Thermophysical properties of a generation IV very high-temperature reactor material. Int. J. Appl. Ceram. Technol. 7(3), 316 (2010).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jackson, H.F., Jayaseelan, D.D., Manara, D., Perinetti-Casoni, C., and Lee, W.E.: Laser melting of zirconium carbide: Determination of phase transitions in refractory ceramic systems. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 94(10), 3561 (2011).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Manara, D., Jackson, H.F., Perinetti-Casoni, C., Boboridis, K., Welland, M.J., Luzzi, L., Ossi, P.M., and Lee, W.E.: The ZrC–C eutectic structure and melting behaviour: A high-temperature radiance spectroscopy study. J. Eur. Ceram. Soc. 33, 1349 (2013).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Savvatimskiy, A.I. and Onufriev, S.V.: Method and apparatus for studying high-temperature properties of conductive materials in the interests of nuclear power engineering. Phys. At. Nucl. 79(14), 1 (2016).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Onufriev, S.V., Savvatimskiy, A.I., and Kondratyev, A.M.: Tantalum melting temperature under fast (microseconds) heating: Overheating is not found. High Temp.–High Pressures 43, 217 (2014).Google Scholar
Knyazkov, A.M., Kurbakov, S.D., Savvatimskiy, A.I., Sheindlin, M.A., and Yanchuk, V.I.: Melting of carbides by electrical pulse heating. High Temp.–High Pressures 40, 349 (2011).Google Scholar
Kondratyev, A., Muboyadzhyan, S., Onufriev, S., and Savvatimskiy, A.: The application of the fast pulse heating method for investigation of carbon-rich side of Zr–C phase diagram under high temperatures. J. Alloys Compd. 631, 52 (2015).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Onufriev, S.V., Savvatimskiy, A.I., and Yanchuk, V.I.: Measurement of the thermal properties of zirconium and tantalum carbides at high temperatures (up to and above melting point). Meas. Tech. 54(8), 926 (2011).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Reithof, T., Acchione, B.D., and Branyan, E.R.: High-temperature spectral emissivity studies on some refractory metals and carbides. In Temperature, its Measurement and Control in Science and Industry, Vol. 3(2), Herzfeld, C.M., ed. (Reinhold Publishing Corp., New York, 1967); pp. 515–522.Google Scholar
Zapadaeva, T.E., Petrov, V.A., and Sokolov, V.V.: Emissivity of stoichiometric zirconium and titanium carbides at high-temperatures. High Temp. 19(2), 313 (1981).Google Scholar
Schick, H.L.: Thermodynamics of Certain Refractory Compounds, Vol. 1–2 (Academic Press, New York, London, 1966). Reprinted in: R.B. Kotel’nikov, S.N. Bashlykov, Z.G. Galiakbarov and A.I. Kashtanov: Osobo tugoplavkie elementy i soedineniya [Especially refractory elements and compounds] (Metallurgiya, Moscow, 1968); p. 376 (in Russian).Google Scholar
Sheindlin, A.E., Chekhovskoy, V.Y., and Shpilrain, E.E.: Research on thermophysical properties of solids at high temperatures at the Institute for High Temperatures of the USSR Academy of Sciences. High Temp.–High Press. 2, 1 (1970).Google Scholar
Bolgar, A.S., Turchanin, A.G., and Fesenko, V.V.: Thermodynamic Properties of Carbides (Naukova Dumka, Kiev, 1973) (in Russian).Google Scholar
Barin, I.: Thermochemical Data of Pure Substances, 3rd ed., Vol. 1–2 (VCH, Weinheim, 1995).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chase, M.W. Jr.: NIST-JANAF themochemical tables, fourth edition. J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, Monogr. 9, 1 (1998).Google Scholar
Levinson, L.S.: High-temperature heat contents of TiC and ZrC. J. Chem. Phys. 42(8), 2891 (1965).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Storms, E.K. and Griffin, J.: The vaporization behavior of the defect carbides. IV. The zirconium–carbon system. High Temp. Sci. 5(4), 291 (1973).Google Scholar
Petrov, V.A., Chekhovskoy, V.Ya., Sheindlin, A.E., Nikolaeva, V.A., and Fomina, L.P.: Total hemispherical emissive power, monochromatic (λ = 0.65 μm) emissive power and specific electrical resistivity of zirconium and niobium carbides in temperature range 1200–3500 K. High Temp. 5(6), 889 (1967).Google Scholar
Grossman, L.N.: High-temperature thermophysical properties of zirconium carbide. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 48(5), 236 (1965).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brykin, M.V.: Enthalpy and numerical simulation of phase transitions in a Zr–C system. High Temp. 53(6), 810 (2015).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Turchanin, A.G.: On the enthalpy of formation of thermal vacancies in the cubic carbides of transition metals. Russ. J. Phys. Chem. A, 54(11), 2962 (1980).Google Scholar
Sara, R.V.: The system zirconium–carbon. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 48(5) 243 (1965).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
T.B. Massalski, ed.: Binary Alloy Phase Diagrams (ASM International, Materials Park, 1990). Shown in: H.W. Hugosson, U. Jansson, B. Johansson, and O. Eriksson: Phase stability diagrams of transition metal carbides, a theoretical study. Chem. Phys. Lett. 333, 444 (2001).Google Scholar
Bgasheva, T., Brykin, M., Falyakhov, T., and Sheindlin, M.: Study of high-temperature phase diagram of Zr-C system in the domain of solid solution by laser-pulse melting. Presented at the Calphad XLIV International Conference on Computer Coupling of Phase Diagrams and Thermochemistry, Calphad XLIV, Loano (Italy), May 31–June 5 (2015).Google Scholar
Onufriev, S.V., Kondratyev, A.M., Savvatimskiy, A.I., Val’yano, G.E., and Muboyadzhyan, S.A.: Investigation of the high temperature properties of zirconium nitride by impulse current heating method. High Temp. 53(3), 455 (2015).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cedillos-Barraza, O., Manara, D., Boboridis, K., Watkins, T., Grasso, S., Jayaseelan, D.D., Konings, R.J.M., Reece, M.J., and Lee, W.E.: Investigating the highest melting temperature materials: A laser melting study of the TaC–HfC system. Sci. Rep. 6, 37962 (2016).CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Frenkel, Ya.I.: Kinetic Theory of Liquids (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1946).Google Scholar
Frenkel, Ya.I.: Introduction to the Theory of Metals, 4th ed. (Nauka, Leningrad, 1972) (in Russian).Google Scholar
Savvatimskiy, A.I., Onufriev, S.V., and Kondratyev, A.M.: Capabilities of pulse current heating to study the properties of graphite at elevated pressures and at high temperatures (up to 5000 K). Carbon 98, 534 (2016).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Orekhov, N.D. and Stegailov, V.V.: Graphite melting: Atomistic kinetics bridges theory and experiment. Carbon 87, 358 (2015).CrossRefGoogle Scholar