Effects of Ti, Zr, and Hf on the phase stability of Mo_ss + Mo3Si + Mo5SiB2 alloys at 1600 °C

Ying Yang, H. Bei, Shuanglin Chen, E. P. George, Jaimie Tiley, Y. Austin Chang

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Abstract

Understanding the stability of the three-phase Mo_ss + Mo3Si + Mo5SiB2 region is important for alloy design of Mo-Si-B-based refractory metal intermetallic composites. In this work, thermodynamic modeling is coupled with guided experiments to study phase stability in this three-phase region of the Mo-Si-B-X (X = Ti, Zr, Hf) system. Both the calculated and experimental results show that additions of Zr and Hf limit significantly the stability of the three-phase region because of the formation of the ternary phases MoSiZr and MoSiHf, while Ti addition leads to a much larger region of stability for the three-phase equilibrium.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)541-548
Number of pages8
JournalActa Materialia
Volume58
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2010
Externally publishedYes

Funding

This research was performed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific and Research Contract No. FA 9550-09-C-0048 through the STTR program with Dr. Joan Fuller as the program manager under the Work-for-Others Program, IAN 14B583903, with the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with UT-Battelle, LLC. We thank Dr. J. H. Schneibel (recently retired from ORNL), Cecil Carmichael, and Larry Walker (ORNL) for experimental support and discussion.

FundersFunder number
U.S. Department of EnergyDE-AC05-00OR22725
Air Force Office of Scientific ResearchFA 9550-09-C-0048, IAN 14B583903
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

    Keywords

    • CALPHAD
    • Multicomponent phase equilibrium
    • Refractory metals
    • Silicides
    • Thermodynamics

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