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Concerning the strength of dynamic strain aging in zirconium

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Tensile tests on high purity (6 × 10−4 oxygen equivalent) and commercial purity (6 × 10−3 oxygen equivalent) zirconium were performed between 77 and 1000 K in order to evaluate dynamic strain aging. A comparison with earlier data from two equivalent titanium compositions yielded the following; reducing the interstitial concentration to the zone refined iodide level removes most evidence of strain aging in both zirconium and titanium. At this impurity concentration, zirconium also shows a greatly reduced thermally activated flow stress component. This was not observed in titanium. At the commercial purity level, both metals exhibit strain aging phenomena. These are much weaker, however, in Zr than in Ti. Even at this impurity level Zr does not exhibit a strain aging yield point, the Portevin-Le Chatelier effect or a well defined work hardening rate peak. All of these latter are found in commercial purity Ti. Several other aspects of DSA, while observed in Zr, are less pronounced than in Ti. The principal interstitial impurity in these materials is oxygen. Oxygen in solid solution strongly increases the(c/a) ratio of Ti, but has little effect on this ratio in Zr. This distortion of the Ti hcp lattice may account, in part, for the greater strength of DSA in this metal.

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  1. Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 60439, Argonne, Ill.

    A. M. Garde

  2. Department of Metallurgy, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3052, Victoria, Australia

    E. Aigeltinger

  3. Bechtel, Inc., 94119, San Francisco, Calif.

    B. N. Woodruff

  4. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, 32611, Gainesville, Fla.

    R. E. Reed-Hill (Professor)

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Garde, A.M., Aigeltinger, E., Woodruff, B.N. et al. Concerning the strength of dynamic strain aging in zirconium. Metall Trans A 6, 1183–1188 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02658527

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