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MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING
Volume 528, Issue 13-14, Pages 4475-4481Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2011.02.083
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Mechanical alloying; Microstructure; Solid solubility extension; Copper alloys; Thermodynamics
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- 863 Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China [2006AA03Z517]
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The supersaturated Cu-Nb solid solutions were produced by mechanical alloying (MA) at room temperature (RT). The microstructural evolution and mechanical property of Cu(100-x)Nb(x) (x = 5, 10, 15, 20, wt.%) powder mixtures during milling were analyzed by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) observations and microhardness measurement. The results show that the solid solubility limit of Nb in Cu can be extended to more than 10 wt.% Nb by MA at RT. The Cu crystallite size decreases with increasing milling time, and approaches 7 nm in Cu(80)Nb(20) and 13 nm in Cu(95)Nb(5) after 100 h milling, respectively. The maximum value of microhardness is about 4.8 GPa for Cu(80)Nb(20) milled for 100 h. The mechanism of solid solubility extension by MA was discussed using a thermodynamical analysis. The surface and elastic strain energy produced by milling supply the main driving force for alloying. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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