Site Occupancies of Hydrogen in Nb Alloyed with Oversized Ta Atoms or Undersized Mo Atoms
摘要:
Site occupancies of hydrogen in Nb alloyed with 2 or 5 at. % of oversized Ta atoms have been investigated at room temperature for hydrogen concentrations of 0.01 and 0.029 at the hydrogen-to-metal-atom ratio (C-H = [H]/[M]), Nb0.98Ta0.02H0.01, Nb0.98Ta0.02H0.029, and Nb0.95Ta0.05H0.01, by the channelling method utilizing a nuclear reaction H-1(B-11,alpha)Be-8 with a B-11 beam of about 2 MeV. It has been clearly demonstrated that hydrogen occupies also tetrahedral (T) sites, in addition to the displaced T sites (d-T sites), which were observed at higher hydrogen concentrations in the Nb0.95Ta0.05 alloys. The d-T site is a site displaced from a T site by about 0.25 angstrom towards its nearest neighbour octahedral (O) site. The T site is more favourable, but the concentration of available T sites is limited, and excess H atoms occupy the d-T sites. This site occupancy is different from that in Nb alloyed with similar concentration of undersized Mo atoms, where hydrogen preferentially occupies trapped sites T-tr displaced from T sites attached to Mo atoms by about 0.6 angstrom towards the Mo atoms due to a strong attractive interaction between them, but the concentration of T-tr sites is limited and excess H atoms enter T sites. On the other hand, there exists no such a strong attractive interaction between hydrogen and an oversized Ta atom. With the help of measurements of the half-widths of X-ray reflection lines in Nb-Mo and Nb-Ta alloys, the site occupancy of hydrogen in the Nb-Ta alloys is explained in terms of an effect of lattice distortion, which was induced by alloying with solute atoms, as in the case of the site occupancy in the Nb-Mo alloys at higher Mo concentrations than about 40 at. %. The d-T site is a stable site for hydrogen in a slightly distorted bcc lattice.
Therefore, the temperaturedependence of its elasticmoduli is of prime importance to improve our understanding of the mechanical properties of this refractory alloy. In this study, the alloy was found to be single phase, fully recrystallized with a slight texture along the normal direction after thermomechanical processing at room temperature. Elasticmoduli were determined over the temperature range [293 K-1100 K]