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Structural Evolution during Milling, Annealing, and Rapid Consolidation of Nanocrystalline Fe-10Cr-3Al Powder.

ABSTRACT: Structural changes during the deformation-induced synthesis of nanocrystalline Fe-10Cr-3Al alloy powder via high-energy ball milling followed by annealing and rapid consolidation by spark plasma sintering were investigated. Reduction in crystallite size was observed during the synthesis, which was associated with the lattice expansion and rise in dislocation density, reflecting the generation of the excess grain boundary interfacial energy and the excess free volume. Subsequent annealing led to the exponential growth of the crystallites with a concomitant drop in the dislocation density. The rapid consolidation of the as-synthesized nanocrystalline alloy powder by the spark plasma sintering, on the other hand, showed only a limited grain growth due to the reduction of processing time for the consolidation by about 95% when compared to annealing at the same temperature.

SUBMITTER: Kumar R

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5503399 | biostudies-other | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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