Pinning Grains in TZM

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Episode 116 of the Professor Alex Volinsky podcast. TZM is molybdenum alloyed with titanium and zirconium for service where steels give up — but refractory metals coarsen at temperature and embrittle when impurities segregate to grain boundaries. Lanthanum doping answers with fine particles that exert Zener drag, so fine grains survive the heat. Based on the paper: Secondary Phases Effects on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Lanthanum-Doped Titanium-Zirconium-Molybdenum Alloy; Bo-liang Hu, Kuai-she Wang, Ping Hu, Hai-rui Xing, Shi-Lei Li, Song-wei Ge, Jia-yu Han, Xing-jiang Hua, Jing-bo Fu, Alex A. Volinsky; International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials, 2021, Vol. 95, 105439. Hosts Elena and Marcus. AI-generated voices.

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