Intermetallic phase-based alloys, in particular transition-metal aluminides, are potential structural and coating materials for high-temperature applications. Such applications usually involve interdiffusion between two dissimilar materials. To simulate microstructures quantitatively, it becomes essential to solve alloy phase-field models conjunction with multicomponent CALPHAD databases. This ...

Ambientto elevated-temperature fracture and fatigue-crack growth results are presented for five MoMo3Si-Mo5SiB2–containing -Mo matrix (17 to 49 vol pct) alloys, which are compared to results for intermetallic-matrix alloys with similar compositions. By increasing the -Mo volume fraction, ductility, or microstructural coarseness, or by using a continuous -Mo matrix, it was found that improved fr...

Phase equilibria of AZ91D Mg alloys for nonflammable use, containing Ca and Y, were carried out by using FactSage® and FTLite database, which revealed that solid solution treatment could be performed at temperatures from 400 to 450C. Solid solution treatment of AZ91D Mg alloy without Ca and Y was successfully conducted at 420C and supersaturated microstructure with all beta phase resolved into ...

We report a study of the low-temperature high-pressure phase diagram of the intermetallic compound PrCu2, by means of molecular-field calculations and Cu nuclear-quadrupole-resonance (NQR) measurements under pressure. The pressure-induced magnetically-ordered phase can be accounted for by considering the influence of the crystal electric field on the 4f electron orbitals of the Pr ions and by i...

the effect of rare earth (re) elements, including ce and la, on the sorption properties of zr-co getters was investigated in this work. the phase evolution, microstructural characteristics of getter powders were studied by means of x-ray diffraction method, scanning electron microscopy (sem) and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (eds). the nanostructured zr3co intermetallic compound has been...