Stress induced ordering due the oxygen and nitrogen in Nb-Ta alloys

Author(s)

Luciano Henrique de Almeida

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Carlos.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC/BT)
• Defense date: 2004-03-11

Examining board members

Carlos Roberto Grandini; Odila Florêncio; Tomaz Toshimi Ishikawa

• Advisor: Carlos Roberto Grandini

Abstract

The study of the metal interaction with interstitial impurities as oxygen and nitrogen in solid solution has aroused the interest of researchers of diverse areas, therefore such impurities modify some mechanical properties of these metaIs. The presence of these interstitials causes a deviation in the perfect elasticity, called anelasticity. Studies of anelastic spectroscopy provide information of the behaviour of these impurities in the metallic matrix. In this dissertation, polycrystalline samples of Nb-8.9%p.Ta alloy have been analysed with different concentrations of interstitials elements. Measurements of anelastic spectroscopy were carried out using an inverted torsion pendulum, operating with frequency of 2.0 to 27.0 Hz and in a temperature range between 300 and 700 K. It was observed the presence of relaxation structures that have been attributed to stress induced ordering due to interstitial atoms around atoms of the metallic matrix. It is also evidenced the existence of a relation between the intensity of the relaxation\'s structures and the interstitials concentration. The relaxation structures have been decomposed in its constituents peaks, what it allowed to identify the following processes of relaxation: Ta-O, Nb-O, Nb-O-O and Nb-N. (AU)