Phase Equilibria in Mo-Rich Alloys of the Mo-Co-B System at Subsolidus Temperatures
摘要
Mo-Co-B alloys of 14 compositions (4 for boundary binary systems and 10 for the ternary one) were prepared by arc melting in the Mo-MoB-Mo2CoB2-MoCoB-µ-Mo6Co7 region. X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD), electron probe microanalysis (SEM/EPMA), differential thermal analysis (DTA) and pyrometric measurements after Pirani and Altertum were used to determine structure and phase transformation temperatures. Based on the obtained results, a projection of the solidus surface for Mo-rich alloys of the Mo-Co-B system was constructed for the first time. It consists of five wide and one narrow isothermal planes of three-phase equilibria, separated by narrow two-phase surfaces. It was found that the incipient melting temperatures of alloys decrease with increasing Co-content from 2268 °C (the temperature of the peritectic reaction Lp + β-MoB ↔ Mo2B in the binary Mo-B system) to 1249 °C (the melting temperature of alloys of the three-phase region µ-Mo6Co7 + Mo2CoB2 + MoCoB), passing through five isothermal plateaus at temperatures of 2005, 1422, 1408, 1388 and 1249 °C.