Determination of the Fe-Cr-Ni and Fe-Cr-Mo Phase Diagrams at Intermediate Temperatures Using a Novel Dual-anneal Diffusion-multiple Approach

Résumé du livre

Four Fe-Cr-Ni-Mo-Co diffusion multiples were made and annealed at 1200 °C for 500 hrs. One sample was used directly for evaluating the isothermal sections at 1200 °C. The other samples (and cut slices) were used to perform a subsequent dual annealing at 900 °C (500 hrs), 800 °C (1000 hrs), 700 °C (1000 hrs), and 600 °C (4500 hrs), respectively. The second annealing induced phase precipitation from the supersaturated solid solutions that were created during the first 1200 °C annealing. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electron probe microanalysis (EPMA), electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) were used to identify the phases and precipitation locations in order to obtain the compositions to construct the isothermal sections of both ternary systems at four different temperatures. The major results obtained from this study are isothermal sections of the Fe-Cr-Ni and Fe-Cr-Mo systems at 1200 °C, 900 °C, 800 °C, and 700 °C. For the Fe-Cr-Ni system, the results from DADMs agree with the majority of the literature results except for results at both 800 °C and 700 °C where the solubility of Cr in the fcc phase was found to be significantly higher than what was computed from thermodynamic calculations using the TCFE5 database. Overall, it seems that the Fe-Cr-Ni thermodynamic assessment only needs slight improvement to describe the phase equilibria of this system. For the Fe-Cr-Mo system, the current study clearly defined the 1200 °C isothermal section with results in general agreement with the majority of prior experimental results, but deviating significantly from results computed using the TCFE5 thermodynamic database; indicating that significant improvement of the thermodynamic assessment for this system is required. Large amounts of phase equilibrium data were obtained from DADMs at 900 ðC, 800 ðC, and 700 ðC for the Fe-rich (> 50 at.% Fe) corner of the Fe-Cr-Mo system, but results of Cr and Mo rich compositions at these temperatures may be questionable due to the slow diffusion kinetics in those high-melting regions. The results from the 600 ðC - 4500 hr annealed DADM was not reported due to the complexity and immature nature of the analysis at the time of this dissertation defense.