Liquidus surface and spinodal of Fe-B-C Alloys

Filonenko, N.Yu. and Galdina, A.N. (2020) Liquidus surface and spinodal of Fe-B-C Alloys. East European Journal of Physics, Т. 1. pp. 75-82. ISSN 2312-4539 (Online), 2312-4334 (Print)

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Abstract

In this work the study is performed for the specimens of Fe-B-C alloys with boron content of 0.005–7.0 wt. % and carbon content of 0.4–6.67 wt. %, the rest is iron. According to the findings of microstructure analysis, XRD and differential thermal analyses, the primary phases and the temperatures of their formation are determined. Depending on boron content (in the range of 1.5–8.80 wt. %) and carbon content (0.5–6.67 wt. %) in the Fe-B-C alloys, the primary phases in the process of crystallization are γ-Fe, boron cementite Fe3(CB) and boride Fe2В. The outcomes of the experiment carried out in this work determine the phase composition and phase transformations occurring in the alloys and the liquidus surface is constructed. The findings show that the liquidus temperature for Fe-B-C system alloys is low compared to binary Fe-B and Fe-C alloys. At the liquidus surface of the Fe-B-C alloys, there is a point at boron content of 2.9 wt. % and carbon content of 1.3 wt. % with the lowest temperature of 1375 K and it is the point of intersection of monovariant eutectics. This fact is in a good agreement with the results of other authors. The microstructure of alloys located at the curves of monovariant eutectics is represented by the γ–Fe+Fe2B and γ–Fe+Fe3(CB) eutectics and the primary crystals of Fe2B iron boride in the shell of Fe3(BC) boron cementite. In this paper it is shown experimentally the existence of a quasi-binary section and the coordinates of the peritectic point are fixed: the boron content is 5.0 wt. %, carbon content is 3.0 wt. % and the temperature is 1515 K. The free energy of the Fe-B-C melt is calculated for the first time by the quasi-chemical method and the surface of thermodynamic stability of the Fe-B-C melt is plotted, depending on temperature and boron and carbon content in the alloy. The results obtained in the paper show that in order to obtain a homogeneous Fe-B-C melt, which does not contain any microheterogeneous structure in the form of short-order microregions, it is necessary to perform the overheating more than to 180 K for the region where the primary phase is iron, and no less than to 200 K for the regions with boron cementite and boride.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Fe-B-C system alloys, Fe2B boride, Fe3(CB) boron cementite, eutectics, thermodynamic stability of a melt.
Subjects:	Physics
Divisions:	Departments > Department of Medical and Biological Physics and Informatics
Depositing User:	Аліна Чеботарьова
Date Deposited:	20 Aug 2020 12:05
Last Modified:	01 Sep 2020 08:45
URI:	http://repo.dma.dp.ua/id/eprint/5623

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