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The Role of Carbon and Vacancies in Determining the Hardness of FeAl Intermetallic in the Quenched and the Aged States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2011

C. García-Oca ,
D.G. Morris ,
M.A. Muñoz-Morris  and
S.C. Deevi
C. García-Oca
Affiliation:
Department of Physical Metallurgy, CENIM, CSIC, Avenida Gregorio del Amo 8, 28040 Madrid, SPAIN;
D.G. Morris
Affiliation:
Department of Physical Metallurgy, CENIM, CSIC, Avenida Gregorio del Amo 8, 28040 Madrid, SPAIN;
M.A. Muñoz-Morris
Affiliation:
Department of Physical Metallurgy, CENIM, CSIC, Avenida Gregorio del Amo 8, 28040 Madrid, SPAIN;
S.C. Deevi
Affiliation:
Chrysalis Technologies, Richmond, Virginia, USA
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Abstract

The role of quenched-in vacancies in FeAl intermetallics on producing considerable hardening is well known, as is the softening on annealing as vacancies are annihilated. The present study examines quench hardening and anneal softening by quenched-in vacancies and interstitial carbon solute in Fe-40Al-C. Interstitial carbon is seen to be a more potent hardening agent than the vacancy, while the co-annihilation of vacancies and carbon atoms from solution during annealing leads to dislocation loop debris, and equiaxed or plate-like carbide precipitation, according to the annealing conditions. The processes occurring have been followed by detailed TEM studies, and are discussed in terms of the relative solubilities and diffusion rates of vacancies and carbon. The relevance of such interstitial solute hardening to the behaviour of other FeAl intermetallics is also briefly considered.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 646 , 2000 , N3.1.1
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2001

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