Papers by Author: Vladimir Fesenko

Abstract: Texture and substructure changes in cladding tubes from Zr-based alloys under neutron irradiation in the atomic reactor during 6 years were investigated by use of X-ray methods. For this aim in the “hot” laboratory the automated X-ray diffractometer was set and the technique to handle with irradiated samples was elaborated. The residual radiation activity of samples correlates with integral texture Kearns parameters of tube, so that the texture weakens as the doze of neutron irradiation grows. Because of the initial substructure inhomogeneity of cladding tubes its changes under neutron irradiation are also inhomogeneous: relatively perfect grains of texture maxima become more distorted, whereas initially distorted grains of texture minima becomes more perfect.

Abstract: Recrystallization of rolled Zr single crystals is considered in comparison with analogous recrystallization processes in rolled coarse-grained iodide Zr and polycrystalline plates of commercially pure Zr. Diffractometric X-ray methods were used by texture and X-ray line profile measurements. The treatment of obtained data included construction of correlation diagrams, connecting as-rolled and recrystallized conditions of samples. A number of recrystallization mechanisms, operating in rolled α-Zr under annealing, were revealed on the basis of found regularities of texture changes.

Abstract: Under rolling of Ti-48%Ni-2%Fe single crystals in the phase B2 at 350oC the twinning is the main mechanism of plastic deformation by many initial orientations of these single crystals, as texture data show clearly. Splitting of initial maxima in the stereographic projection of single crystal into several new ones is an evident manifestation of twinning. But this mode of reorientation is observed only at initial stages of rolling, when deformation degrees do not exceed ~10-15%. A geometrical analysis of pole figures for rolled single crystals showed, that at the used rolling temperature the preferable twinning planes there were {114} and {118}.

Abstract: Typical modes of the microstress distribution were found by X-ray study of Ti-Ni rolled single crystals using the X-ray method of Generalized Pole Figures. The method consists in successive measurements of the peak position 2θ for the same X-ray line of B2 phase by all possible positions of the sample in the course of diffractometric study of its texture. In the case of one-component rolling texture maxima in pole figure break into halves with opposite signs of elastic deformation, whereas by two-component rolling textures the one-sign elastic strain dominates within different maxima.

Abstract: The method was developed for quantitative estimation of inputs to plastic deformation of crystallographic and non-crystallographic modes of slip by data of X-ray texture measurements. The texture analysis allows to split material into fractions, deformed by predominant operation of crystallographic and non-crystallographic mechanisms, differing in final orientations of grains. Whereas texture maxima in pole figures correspond to grains, deformed by means of crystallographic slip and having predictable final orientations, texture minima are formed by grains, whose deformation does not submit to crystallographic regularities and therefore their orientations are deflected from stable positions or even prove to be arbitrary. These effects are demonstrated as applied to semi-products from Zr-based alloys, subjected to the deformation treatment at temperatures of the (α+β)-region of Zr-Nb phase diagram.

Abstract: Abstract. Features of the texture development in Zr-based alloys under compression at tempera-tures of the (α+β)-region of the Zr-Nb phase diagram indicate that the plastic deformation shifts temperatures of phase transformations due to accompanying thermal effects and the decrease of lattice stability, whereas formation of the fine-grained structure by phase transformation promotes activation of the non-crystallographic deformation mechanism of slip by interphase boundaries.

Abstract: Single crystals of the alloy Ti-48%Ni-2%Fe, consisting of the phase B2, were rolled at 350°C with deformation degrees up to ~80% in 11 different initial orientations. Texture development in single crystals under rolling was analyzed to determine the active mechanisms of their plastic deformation. There are three stable initial orientations, which remain unchanged during rolling of Ti-Ni single crystals: {011}<011>, {111}<011> and {111}<112>. It was shown, that Ti-Ni single crystals deform by means of combined action of slip in systems {011}<001> and twinning in systems {114}<221> and {118}<441>. Variants of rolling texture formation in single crystals are very diverse and depend on their initial orientations and deformation degrees.

Abstract: Features of the deformation process by cold radial forging of tube billets from Zr-1%Nb alloy were reconstructed on the basis of X-ray texture data. The cold radial forging intensifies grain fragmentation in the bulk of billet and increases significantly the latent hardening of potentially active slip systems, so that operation only of the single slip system becomes possible. As a result, in radially-forged billets unusual deformation and recrystallization textures arise, differing from usual textures of a-Zr by the mutual inversion of crystallographic axes, aligned along the axis of tube.

Abstract: The deformation behavior of commercial Zr alloys with 1% and 2,5%Nb under compression at temperatures of the (α+β)-region of Zr-Nb phase diagram is considered on the basis of experimental data obtained by X-ray texture study of deformed samples. Mechanisms, responsible for plastic deformation of alloys by different temperature-rate regimes were determined on the basis of resulting textures. Among these mechanisms there are crystallographic slip and mutual displacements of crystallites along interphase boundaries. The latter mechanism sharply intensifies by grain fragmentation down to nanostructuring under conditions of α«β phase transformations. Texture features of deformed samples testify about interaction of plastic deformation with phase transformations and indicate that due to this interaction compression by optimal regimes promotes the utmost refinement of structure elements.

Abstract: Deformation behavior of Zr-based alloys by forging under conditions of α↔β phase transformations was considered as applied to model samples and real semi-products. Model samples were deformed by uniaxial compression at temperatures of β- and (α+β)-regions of the phase diagram Zr-Nb. Mechanisms, responsible for plastic deformation of alloys by different temperature-rate regimes, were determined on the basis of textures, arising in deformed samples. Among these mechanisms there are crystallographic slip in grains of β-Zr and α-Zr as well as mutual displace¬ments of crystallites along interphase boundaries. The latter mechanism sharply intensifies under conditions of α«β phase transformations and lies in the basis of superplasticity. An input of each mechanism into plastic deformation of material depends on the temperature-rate regime of compression and determines its anisotropy.