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Precise but simple experimental and inverse methods allowing the recovery of mechanical material parameters are necessary for the exploration of materials with novel crystallographic structures and elastic properties, particularly for new materials and those existing only in theory. The alloys studied herein are of new atomic compositions. This paper reports an experimental study involving the synthesis and development of methods for the determination of the elastic properties of binary (Fe-Al, Fe-Ti and Ti-Al) and ternary (Fe-Ti-Al) intermetallic alloys with different concentrations of their individual constituents. The alloys studied were synthesized from high purity metals using an arc furnace with argon flow to ensure their uniformity and homogeneity. Precise but simple methods for the recovery of the elastic constants of the isotropic metals from resonant ultrasound vibration data were developed. These methods allowed the fine analysis of the relationships between the atomic concentration of a given constituent and the Young’s modulus or alloy density.

Abstract:In the present paper, solidification sequences are proposed in relation to the observed microstructures for Fe-Nb-C iron based ternary alloys. These alloys are arc melted and characterised by means of differential thermal analysis, scanning electronic microscopy and by quantitative electron probe microanalysis. Thus, an invariant eutectic ternary reaction L ↔ γ + NbC 1-x + Fe 3 C is proposed at 1140°C.