期刊
JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY
卷 35, 期 1, 页码 95-103出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2014.08.021
关键词
Transition metals; Carbides; Vacancies; Elasticity; Hardness
资金
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-12-1-0104]
- University of Alabama Office for Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program
For group VB transition metal carbides, as compared to group IVB carbides, an anomalous rise in hardness occurs for substoichiometric carbon concentrations as compared to the stoichiometric monocarbides. Here we report the computationally derived elastic constants, electronic density of states, and activation energies for carbon vacancy migration as a function of carbon content to elucidate their effect on the hardening responses. The changes in elastic properties with respect to carbon vacancy concentration show similar behaviors of elastic softening and decreasing hardness for all of the cubic carbides. The consistent trends of vacancy diffusion energy barriers between all of the group IVB and VB transition metal carbides also suggests that carbon diffusion may not be a significant contributor to the reported hardness differences. Consequently, we propose that the anomalous hardening for substoichiometric behavior is a competition between elastic constant softening and a microstructural-based effect, i.e. domain hardening, that is present in group VB carbides but not in group IVB carbides. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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