Materials (Oct 2024)

High-Temperature Creep Resistance of FeAlOY ODS Ferritic Alloy

  • Petr Dymáček,
  • Milan Jarý,
  • Denisa Bártková,
  • Natália Luptáková,
  • Štepán Gamanov,
  • Petr Bořil,
  • Vjaceslav Georgiev,
  • Jiří Svoboda

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17204984
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 20
p. 4984

Abstract

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A significant effort in optimizing the chemical composition and powder metallurgical processing led to preparing new-generation ferritic coarse-grained ODS alloys with a high nano-oxide content. The optimization was aimed at high-temperature creep and oxidation resistance at temperatures in the range of 1100–1300 °C. An FeAlOY alloy, with the chemical composition Fe–10Al–4Cr–4Y2O3 (wt. %), seems as the most promising one. The consolidation of the alloy is preferably conducted by hot rolling in several steps, followed by static recrystallization for 1 h at 1200 °C, which provides a stable coarse-grain microstructure with homogeneous dispersion of nano-oxides. This represents the most cost-effective way of production. Another method of consolidation tested was hot rotary swaging, which also gave promising results. The compression creep testing of the alloy at 1100, 1200, and 1300 °C shows excellent creep performance, which is confirmed by the tensile creep tests at 1100 °C as well. The potential in such a temperature range is the target for possible applications of the FeAlOY for the pull rods of high-temperature testing machines, gas turbine blades, or furnace fan vanes. The key effort now focuses on expanding the production from laboratory samples to larger industrial pieces.

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