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 language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 541-548 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Acta Materialia |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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.
Keywords
- CALPHAD
- Multicomponent phase equilibrium
- Refractory metals
- Silicides
- Thermodynamics