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Phase Transformation and Atypical Variants in an Extruded Two Phase Zirconium Tube

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The texture evolution of a Zr-2.5wt pctNb alloy pressure tube is characterized after the \(\alpha \rightarrow \beta \) transformation and the \(\beta \rightarrow \alpha \) transformation by room temperature EBSD maps and reconstruction of the high temperature \(\beta \) phase. The \(\beta \) phase forms a deformation texture which varies along the radial direction of the tube and changes after thermal cycling. Variant selection during the \(\beta \rightarrow \alpha \) phase transformation is shown to be strongly influenced by residual stress within the material, with a more randomized variant selection for water quenched samples. Slower cooling rates were found to create orientations in addition to the 12 \(\alpha \) variants expected by the Burger’s orientation relationship in a given \(\beta \) grain.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by NSERC and UNENE under the Industrial Research Chair program in Nuclear Materials at Queen’s University. We thank S.A. Aldridge of Nu-tech Precision Metals Inc. and J.M. Theaker of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. for providing the source material, and T. Skippon for his helpful editorial comments.

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Queen’s University, 60 Union Street, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada

    D. Kerr, C. Cochrane & M. R. Daymond

  2. now at Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, 280 Slater Street, Ottawa, ON, K1P 5S9, Canada

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Kerr, D., Cochrane, C. & Daymond, M.R. Phase Transformation and Atypical Variants in an Extruded Two Phase Zirconium Tube. Metall Mater Trans A 51, 2724–2737 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-020-05752-x

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