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Structural features of martensite α-phases in alloys of uranium with transition metals

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The structures and formation kinetics are considered for martensite α phases in diffusionless transformation of the γ and β phases of alloys between uranium and transition metals. The general features of the {ie118-1} martensite phase and of the martensite in a steel have been determined by metallography, x-ray structure analysis, and dilatometry, and the same has been done for the martensite {ie118-2} and {ie118-3} phases and martensite in indium-thallium and gold-cadmium alloys. Kinetic features are given for the two-stage diffusionless {ie118-4} transformation in uranium-molybdenum and uranium-niobium alloys, in which the second stage {ie118-5} has the characteristics of a thermoelastic martensite transformation that is realized not only as the temperature varies but also in response to external stress.

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  1. V. K. Orlov
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Bochvar All-Russia New Materials Research Institute, Russian Federation State Scientific Center. Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 86, No. 2, pp. 113–120, February, 1999.

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Orlov, V.K., Teplinskaya, V.M. Structural features of martensite α-phases in alloys of uranium with transition metals. At Energy 86, 118–125 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02673532

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