{"id":8499,"date":"2018-10-01T11:11:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T11:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.asminternational.org\/hts-new\/results\/-\/journal_content\/56\/10192\/35462874\/NEWS\/"},"modified":"2023-02-07T04:48:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T04:48:55","slug":"japanese-scientists-develop-molybdenum-base-high-temperature-high-strength-alloy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asminternational.org\/hts\/japanese-scientists-develop-molybdenum-base-high-temperature-high-strength-alloy\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese scientists develop molybdenum-base high-temperature high-strength alloy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\"><span style=\"line-height:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Tohoku University, Japan, reports that its researchers have developed a titanium carbide-reinforced, molybdenum-silicon-boron (Mo-Si-B)-based alloy, or MoSiBTiC, whose high-temperature strength was identified under constant forces in the temperature ranges of 2550 to &nbsp;2900\u00b0F.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\"><span style=\"line-height:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">The study was published in Nature&#8217;s open access journal <i>Scientific Reports<\/i> in July 2018. &#8220;Our experiments show that the MoSiBTiC alloy is extremely strong compared with cutting-edge nickel-base single crystal superalloys, which are commonly used in hot sections of heat engines such as jet engines and gas turbines for electric power generation,&#8221; says lead author Prof. Kyosuke Yoshimi of Tohoku University&#8217;s Graduate School of Engineering.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\"><span style=\"line-height:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">&#8220;This work suggests that the MoSiBTiC, as ultrahigh temperature materials beyond nickel-based superalloys, is one promising candidate for those applications,&#8221; added Yoshimi.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\"><span style=\"line-height:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Yoshimi and colleagues report several parameters that highlight the alloy&#8217;s favorable ability to withstand disruptive forces under ultrahigh temperatures without deforming. They also observed the alloy&#8217;s behavior when exposed to increasing forces and when cavities within MoSiBTiC formed and grew, resulting in to microcracks and final rupturing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\"><span style=\"line-height:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">The researchers assessed the alloy&#8217;s creep in a stress range of 100 to 300 MPa for 400 hours. All experiments were performed in a computer-controlled test rig under vacuum in order to prevent the material from oxidizing, or reacting with the any potential air moisture, which could ultimately result in rust formation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\"><span style=\"line-height:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Furthermore, the study reports that, contrary to previous studies, the alloy experiences larger elongation with decreasing forces. This behavior, they write, has so far only been observed with superplastic materials that are capable of withstanding against unexpected premature failure.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\"><span style=\"line-height:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">These findings are an important indicator for MoSiBTiC&#8217;s applicability in systems that function at extremely high temperatures, such as energy conversion systems in automotive applications, power plants, and propulsion systems in aircraft engines and rockets. The researchers say that several additional microstructural analyses are needed in order to fully understand the alloy&#8217;s mechanics and its ability to recover from exposure of high stresses such as large forces under high temperatures.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tohoku.ac.jp\/en\/press\/metal_withstands_ultra_high_temperature.html\">http:\/\/www.tohoku.ac.jp\/en\/press\/metal_withstands_ultra_high_temperature.html<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tohoku University, Japan, reports that its researchers have developed a titanium carbide-reinforced, molybdenum-silicon-boron (Mo-Si-B)-based alloy, or MoSiBTiC, whose high-temperature strength was identified under constant forces in the temperature ranges of 2550 to  2900\u00b0F.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[444,443,440,441,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace-and-defense","category-fossil-fuel-power","category-news","category-news-articles","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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