中国有色金属学报(英文版)
Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China
| Vol. 17 No. 2 April 2007 |
（1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University,
Changsha 410083,China;
2. Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials of Yunan Province,
Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China）
Abstract:The thermodynamic data of pure Ag and Y were calculated. The phase constitution, composition of micro-region and microstructures of Ag-Y alloy after internal oxidation were investigated by X-ray diffractometry(XRD), energy dispersion spectrometry(EDS) and scanning electron microscopy(SEM). The results show that the internal oxidation behavior of Ag-Y alloy is feasible from the view of thermodynamics. The upper limit of oxygen partial pressure of Ag-Y alloy oxidation is a function of temperature. Two phases (Ag and Y2O3) appear in Ag-Y alloy after the internal oxidation. The surface of Ag-Y alloy is convex because of the volume expansion of oxide in the alloy and the composition of the convex part is Ag. In Ag-Y2O3 sintered bulk Y2O3 particles are distributed inhomogeneously and conglomerated seriously, but they are dispersed uniformly in the Ag matrix after severe plastic deformation.
Key words: Ag-Y alloy; internal oxidation; thermodynamics; microstructure
