Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 202, Issue -, Pages 290-301Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2020.10.067
Keywords
Recrystallization; Precipitation; Defects; Phase transformation
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52071256, 51871174, 51831006]
- Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities
- Young Talent Support Plans of XJTU
- State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials [20192106]
- fund of the State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing in NPU [SKLSP202003]
- Key Scientific and Technological Innovation Team of Shaanxi province [2020TD-001]
- Shaanxi Province
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The study investigated the process of concurrent recrystallization and precipitation in a supersaturated hexagonal Sm(Co, Fe, Cu, Zr)(7.5) alloy using transmission electron microscopy. It found that the formation and dissociation of defects play a crucial role in the transformation of the matrix and formation of precipitates. The growth velocities of recrystallized cells and precipitates are closely related to defects density, with faster growth at early stages and slower growth at later stages.
Identifying the defects process in concurrent recrystallization and precipitation during aging a supersaturated solid solution is essential for understanding their interaction mechanisms and for manipulating the microstructure, but was rarely done at the atomic scale. Herein, the concurrent recrystallization and precipitation in the supersaturated hexagonal Sm(Co, Fe, Cu, Zr)(7.5) alloys were studied through detailed transmission electron microscopy investigations, where the recrystallization, growth of recrystallized subgrains (cells) and precipitates stem from the gradual formation and dissociation of defects, including basal stacking faults (SFs), vacancies and excess interstitial atoms. The diffusion-controlled glides of -type partial dislocations associated with the SFs not only transform the matrix from the mixture of hexagonal Sm(Co, Fe, Cu, Zr)(7) (1:7H) and Sm-2(Co, Fe, Cu, Zr)(17) (2:17H) to Sm-depleted rhombohedral Sm-2(Co, Fe, Cu, Zr)(17) (2:17R) cells but also provide continuous diffusion channels to reduce the point defects to form the Sm-enriched hexagonal Sm(Co, Fe, Cu, Zr)(5) (1:5H) cell boundary precipitates and Zr-enriched rhombohedral (Sm, Zr)(Co, Fe, Cu)(3) (1:3R) platelets. It indicates a diffusion-controlled displacive phase transformation mechanism, characterized by the composition-dependent 2:17R' intermediate phase due to incomplete basal slip and incomplete solute partitioning. The growth velocities of both recrystallized cells and precipitates are closely related to the defects density, being faster due to the high defects density at early stage, and being slower due to the reduced defects density at later stage. A basal slip model is proposed to explain the formation and dissociation of defects along with the stacking period change and the simultaneous formation of continuous atomic diffusion channels. These new findings may yield a deep understanding of the interaction between recrystallization and precipitation. (c) 2020 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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