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Effect of Rhenium Addition On Isothermal Oxidation Behavior of Tribaloy T-800 Alloy
Effect of Rhenium Addition On Isothermal Oxidation Behavior of Tribaloy T-800 Alloy
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Aeronautics
Chinese Journal of Aeronautics 23(2010) 370-376 www.elsevier.com/locate/cja
Abstract
The effects of 4 wt% rhenium (Re) addition on isothermal oxidation behavior of Tribaloy T-800 alloy have been studied at
800 °C and 1 000 °C in air. At 800 °C, T-800 shows nonuniform oxidation between dendritic and eutectic areas. Re addition
clearly promotes the nonuniform oxidation, leading to considerably higher mass gains than that of T-800 at this temperature. At
1 000 °C exposure, the thickness of scale on T-800 increases significantly, accompanied by severe scale spallation during cooling
to room temperature. On the contrary, T-800Re shows a marked decrease of oxide growth rate compared to the linear one of
T-800 at 1 000 °C. The scale adhesion is also improved with Re addition at this higher temperature. Therefore, the role of Re
depends on the exposure temperature. Re addition gives high oxidation rate at 800 °C, however, the excellent oxidation resis-
tance is obtained by the addition of Re at a higher temperature of 1 000 °C.
performed at 800 °C for 60 h and 1 000 °C for 40 h in The oxidation kinetics can be fitted by
still air. Each specimen was oxidized at the appointed
Δm / A = Kt n
temperature for the desired time and the mass gain was
quantified discontinuously by an electronic balance where Δm is the mass change, A the surface area, K the
with a sensitivity of 0.1 mg after cooling to room tem- oxidation rate constant, t the exposure time. n values
perature. are listed in Table 1. Both alloys follow subparabolic
The constituent phases in the oxide scale developed kinetics at 800 °C exposure. It is also found that the Re
on the alloys were identified using X-ray diffraction addition results in a marked increase of mass gain and
(XRD, using Cu Kα radiation). The morphologies and the differences become more pronounced with in-
chemical compositions of top surface and cross-section creasing exposure time at 800 °C. During oxidation at
of the oxide scales were examined by scanning elec- 1 000 °C, n value is 0.94, which indicates that a nearly
tron microscopy (SEM) with energy dispersive spec- linear oxidation kinetics is identified for T-800. How-
troscopy (EDS). ever, the oxidation of T-800Re follows a nearly para-
bolic kinetics at this temperature. It is inferred that the
3. Results oxide growth rate is decreased dramatically by Re ad-
dition at 1 000 °C. Furthermore, after exposure at
3.1. Isothermal oxidation kinetics 1 000 °C, the difference of mass gains between with
and without measuring the spalled oxides is great
Since considerable spallation of oxide scale on (Fig.1(b)), suggesting a considerable extent of oxide
T-800 occurred during cooling to room temperature spallation. However, no spallation is observed for
after exposure at 1 000 °C for 40 h, the specimen of T-800Re. In summary, the role of Re addition to T-800
T-800 was oxidized in a crucible, and then weighed depends on the exposure temperatures.
together with the crucible before and after oxidation.
Fig.1 shows the mass gains per unit surface area of Table 1 n values for oxidation of T-800 and T-800Re at
T-800 and T-800Re oxidized at 800 °C and 1 000 °C, 800 °C and 1 000 °C
respectively. In Fig.1(b), the solid line with filled tri- Correlation
Alloy Temperature/°C n
angle is the mass gain of T-800 including spalled oxide; coefficient
the dashed line with open triangle is from experimental 800 0.39 0.964 50
measurements of T-800 specimen without spalled T-800
1 000 0.94 0.988 00
mass.
800 0.66 0.991 52
T-800Re
1 000 0.50 0.991 00
Fig.2 Surface morphologies of oxide scales on T-800 and Fig.3 Surface morphologies of T-800 and T-800Re after
T-800Re after 40 h of exposure at 800 °C. oxidation at 1 000 °C for 40 h.
4. Discussion
dation behavior of a cast Ni3Al alloy. Intermetallics Yang Zhigang Born in 1968, he received Ph.D. degree
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Biographies: E-mail: lanh07@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn