Increasing the Thermal Stability and High-Temperature Strength of Vanadium Alloys by Strengthening with Nanosized Non-Metallic Particles.

Using the methods of scanning and transmission electron microscopy, the features of the structural-phase state of a vanadium alloy of the V-Cr-Ta-Zr system after a combined treatment, which consisted in cyclic alternation of thermomechanical and chemical-heat treatments, were studied. The values of yield strength and ductility of the V-Cr-Ta-Zr alloy were determined, depending on the stabilization and test temperatures. It was established that, after the combined treatment, the structural-phase state of the V-Cr-Ta-Zr alloy was composite, in which the joint implementation of dispersion and substructural strengthening ensured the formation of a gradient grain structure with a polygonal state, the elements of which were fixed by nanosized ZrO particles characterized by a high thermal stability.

Structure and Phase Composition of a W-Ta-Mo-Nb-V-Cr-Zr-Ti Alloy Obtained by Ball Milling and Spark Plasma Sintering.

In this paper, the structural characteristics of a W-Ta-Mo-Nb-V-Cr-Zr-Ti non-equiatomic refractory metal alloy obtained by spark plasma sintering (SPS) of a high-energy ball-milled powder mixture are reported. High-energy ball milling resulted in the formation of particle agglomerates ranging from several tens to several hundreds of micrometers. These agglomerates were composed of micrometer and submicrometer particles.