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Environmental Effects in B2 FeAl Alloys
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 1992
Abstract
The low room-temperature ductility of iron-rich B2-structured FeAl has been attributed to atomic hydrogen arising from a reaction between water vapor and aluminum atoms at crack tips [C.T. Liu and C.G. McKamey, in “High Temperature Aluminides and Intermetallics”, eds. S.H. Whang et al (TMS, Warrendale, PA, 1990), p. 133]. Since hydrogen diffusion is time-dependent, the ductility might be expected to improve with increasing strain rate. Such behavior has been confirmed by tensile tests on Fe-45A1 and Fe-40Al-5Cr in air at strain rates ranging from 1 × 10−6 s−1 to 1 s−1. A brittle-to-ductile transition was observed at a strain rate of ∼10−2 s−1. The material with Cr appeared to be slightly less susceptible to environmental embrittlement, as reflected by the shift of the brittle-to-ductile transition to a lower strain rate. Fracture toughness tests on Fe-45A1 in air demonstrated a similar strain rate effect.
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