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The structure and high-temperature mechanical properties of Fe-30 at. pct Al and Fe-25 at. pct Al alloys with various Zr contents are compared. The scanning electron microscope images in chemical contrast mode (R-BSE) as well as EDS, EBSD, and X-ray diffraction were used to determine the structure and phase composition. The as-cast alloys (both Fe-30Al and Fe-25Al) were observed to be two-phase DO3/B2 + Laves phase λ 1 (Fe,Al)2Zr alloys with typical fine lamellar eutectic areas. During the heat treatment of the Fe-25Al alloys, their structure transformed from a DO3/B2 matrix with fine lamellar eutectic into λ 1 globular particles situated in a DO3/B2 matrix. The same structure of Fe-30Al alloys decomposed into three phases: λ 1 and τ 1 Zr(Fe,Al)12 particles in a DO3/B2 matrix. The hardening in both groups of alloys (Fe-25Al and Fe-30Al) due to the presence of Zr-containing λ 1 and τ 1 phases is compared.
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The present work is a part of the project supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic under Nr. P108/12/1452. The authors would like to thank the Institute for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation of the Technical University of Liberec for the use of its equipment for the study of the structure of the alloys. In addition, the assistance of the faculty of Metallurgy and Material Engineering (Prof. Ivo Schindler) of the Technical University in Ostrava, where the alloys were prepared, is acknowledged.
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Kejzlar, P., Kratochvíl, P., Král, R. et al. Phase Structure and High-Temperature Mechanical Properties of Two-Phase Fe-25Al-xZr Alloys Compared to Three-Phase Fe-30Al-xZr Alloys. Metall Mater Trans A 45, 335–342 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-013-1987-1
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