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    low temperature strength and ductility of powder metallurgy molybdenum and electron beam melted molybdenum and its alloys which have been recyrstallized or electron beam welded is examined from the viewpoint of carbon content and microstucture.

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    Materats Transactions, JIM, Vol. 31, No. 10 (1990), pp. 861 10 864 Significant Effect of Carbon Content in the Low-Temperature Fracture Behavior of Molybdenum By Yutaka Hiraoka* Low-temperature strength and ductility of powder-metalurgy molybdenum and electrom-beam-melted molyb- {denum and is alloys which have been recrystallized or eleciron-beam-welded is examined from the viewpoint of carbon content and microstructures, Critical stress and critical temperature primarily depended on the carbon content. A small amount of carbon substant ly enhanced the critical sess, and consequently lowered the eritial temperature. The effects of microstruc tural changes such as grein size and precipitates size and distribution as result of alloying and/or welding onthe above resulls were secondary, (Pes ay 4, 150 Keywords: molybdenum, critical stress, critieal temperature, fracture mode, carbon content, grain sie, precipitates I. Introduction It is well known that a proper amount of carbon effee- tively improves the ductility of molybdenum. The mechanisms of such a ductilisation have been proposed by several researchers. Tsuya and Aritomi®, Hiraoka ef al. and Suzuki ef al.©) suggested that grain boundary of ‘molybdenum is intrinsically weak and the segregated carbon itself enhances the grain-boundary. strength. Kurishita and Yoshinaga investigated the effect of carbon on the intergranular fracture of molybdenum bicrystals. They concluded that carbon enrichment at grain boundaries strengthens the weak boundaries, and also is orientation dependent. Kumar and Eyre”, on the other hand, demonstrated an indirect effect of carbon, that is carbon addition suppresses oxygen segregation t0 the boundaries, causing intergranular brittleness. They also suggested that intergranular precipitates which have a favorable coherency with the matrices® act as obstacles, against the intergranular crack propagation. The latter effect also reduces intergranular embrittlement. Beneficial effects of carbon on the ductility of welded molybdenum were also reported. Platte ®, Hiraoka et al.® and Kohyama and Igata® pointed out that carbon addition is very effective in order to improve the ductility of welded joint. More recently, Hiraoka ef al. carried out a sys- tematic study on the optimum carbon content that im- proves the ductility of electron-beam-welded joints of powder-metallurgy molybdenum. In this paper, low-temperature strength and ductility of powder-metallurgy molybdenum and electron-beam- melted molybdenum and its alloys which have been fully recrystallized or electron-beam welded are examined * Tevkuba Laboratories, National Research Institute for Metal ‘Tsukuba, Mbaraki 305, Japan. Present address: Graduate Scho! (Okayama University of Science, Okayama 700, Japan. from the viewpoint of carbon content and microstruc tures such as grain size and precipitates. IL. Experimental ‘Materials used in this work were powder-metallurgy molybdenum with or without carburizing, electron- beam-melted molybdenum containing low and high carbon, molybdenum-niobium alloy and molybdenum- vanadium alloys with or without boron. Chemical com- positions and heat-treatment conditions are summarized in Table 1. Electron-beam welding by a melt-run tech- nique was performed to the direction perpendicular to the final rolling direction. The welding conditions were 50 kV acceleration voltage, 60 mA beam current and 30 mm/s welding speed. Tensile tests were performed at temperatures — 100 to 90°C at a nominal strain rate of 1.2% 10~* s~. The gauge size of the specimen was 4mm wide and 14mm long. Fracture surfaces were examined by scanning electron microscopy. Fracture mode, crack initiation and pro- pagation characteristics and precipitate size and its distribution were observed. IIL. Results and Discussion 1. Estimation of critical stress and critical temperature In this paper, low-temperature strength and ductility of the material was represented by two parameters, critical stress (¢,) and critical temperature (T-), respec tively. a, and T. can be determined by the following equa- tions”: TT, o(~6))

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