Grain Boundary Wetting by a Second Solid Phase in the Zr-Nb Alloys
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Zr-Nb alloys play the important role in the energy production being the main material for the cladding of nuclear fuel in the nuclear power plants. The thermo-mechanical treatment of these alloys proceeds in the (αZr) + (βZr, Nb) two-phase area of the Zr-Nb phase diagram. Therefore, the morphology and the mutual arrangement of the (Zr) and (Nb) phases play an extremely important role. The microstructure of binary Zr-Nb alloys with 2.5, 4, and 8 wt.% Nb after long anneals (720 h) was studied between 660 and 810 °C in the two-phase (αZr) + (βZr, Nb) area of the Zr-Nb phase diagram. (βZr, Nb)/(βZr, Nb) grain boundaries (GBs) completely or incompletely wetted by the αZr phase were observed. The portion of the completely wetted (βZr, Nb)/(βZr, Nb) GBs increases from 10% (at 660 °C) to 60% close to the upper border of the (αZr) + (βZr, Nb) two-phase area of the Zr-Nb phase diagram (850 °C). The temperature of the beginning of the GB wetting phase transition of (βZr, Nb)/(βZr, Nb) GBs by the αZr phase is Tws = 630 ± 10 °C. The αZr/αZr GBs completely wetted by a layer of (βZr, Nb) phase were not observed in the studied samples.
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