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Development of novel environmental resistant Fe3Al-X intermetallic alloys by means of in situ electrochemical nanoindentation

Subject Area Mechanical Properties of Metallic Materials and their Microstructural Origins
Term from 2011 to 2016
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 209933027
 
Iron aluminide intermetallic alloys are a promising low cost and resource insensitive family of materials which are suffering from severe hydrogen embrittlement (HE) sensitivity. Alloying of this intermetallics with a third element can improve their resistance against HE. However, conventional mechanical testing methods for characterization and quantitative evaluation of the resistance against HE are very costly and time consuming.With the in situ electrochemical nanoindentation method developed in our institute, it is possible to quantitatively evaluate the sensitivity of metals to HE by measuring the reduction in the activation energy for dislocation nucleation due to hydrogen. Samples required to perform these tests are of a few cubic millimeter in size and it is possible to perform many indentations on a single sample. Such a small sample can be heat treated to produce different ordered crystal structures and again be tested for sensitivity to HE. Hence, the effect of the crystal structure, different dislocation types and vacancy concentration in combination with the third alloying elements can be thoroughly examined.
DFG Programme Research Grants
Participating Person Professor Dr. Horst Vehoff
 
 

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