SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 1992
STP17965S

Internal Friction Peaks Due to Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Hydrogen in Vanadium-Niobium (V-Nb) Alloys

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Richter's and Snoek's original works established the existence of an anelastic relaxation produced by a stress-induced interstitial reorientation in body-centered-cubic (bcc) metals. This anelastic relaxation, now referred to as a Snoek peak, has been studied extensively and well characterized in the past for the interstitials carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen. The existence of a hydrogen Snoek peak in bcc metals has been a matter of some controversy, however.

We have studied relaxation peaks in vanadium, niobium, and vanadium-niobium (V-Nb) alloys recently. The alloys have complete mutual solubility and are of interest since they have an extremely high room temperature solid solubility for hydrogen. They also have, over a certain composition range, not shown any hydride phase precipitation at temperatures as low as 4 K. Thus, if a hydrogen Snoek peak does exist, it should be found in such alloys. Indeed there is evidence now of a spectrum of hydrogen relaxation peaks below room temperature. Furthermore, due to the difference in the atomic radii of vanadium and niobium, there is a large misfit in dilute alloys of these elements. This and possibly some chemical interaction can cause trapping (or antitrapping) of the interstitials at the substitutional sites, causing solute-interstitial peaks.

The present paper provides an overview of our observations regarding: (1) the effect of hydrogen on the oxygen and nitrogen Snoek peaks in pure vanadium and niobium, (2) the oxygen relaxation peaks in V-Nb alloys, (3) the hydrogen relaxation spectrum in V-Nb alloys, and (4) the effect of oxygen on the hydrogen relaxation spectrum in V-Nb alloys.

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Buck, O
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Carlson, ON
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Indrawirawan, H
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Brasche, LJH
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Peterson, DT
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
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Developed by Committee: E28
Pages: 227–244
DOI: 10.1520/STP17965S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-5218-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-1495-1