journal article·2017-10Open access

Influence of Mo alloying on the thermal stability and hardness of ultrafine-grained Ni processed by high-pressure torsion

Garima Kapoor, Yi Huang, V. Subramanya Sarma, Terence G. Langdon, Jenő Gubicza

Abstract

The influence of Mo alloying on the thermal stability of grain size, dislocation density and hardness of ultrafine-grained (UFG) Ni alloys was studied. The UFG microstructure in alloys with low (∼0.3 at.%) and high (∼5 at.%) Mo contents was achieved by high-pressure torsion (HPT) performed for 20 turns at room temperature. The thermal stability of the two alloys was studied by calorimetry. A Curie-transition from ferromagnetic to paramagnetic state was not found for the Ni–5% Mo alloy due to the high Mo content. It was found that heating at a rate of 40 K/min up to ∼850 K resulted in a complete recovery and recrystallization of the UFG microstructure in the alloy with 0.3% Mo. The same annealing for Ni–5% Mo led only to a moderate reduction of the dislocation density and the grain size remained in the UFG regime. Therefore, the higher Mo content yielded a much better thermal stability of the Ni alloy. The influence of the change of the microstructure during annealing on the hardness is discussed.
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