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Effect of Thermochemical Treatment in Regulated Gas Media on the Thermal Resistance of Zr1%Nb Alloy

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We perform experimental investigation of the oxidation of Zr1%Nb zirconium alloy after preliminary thermochemical treatment of ring specimens made of the pipe of a fuel element. It is shown that the preliminary nitriding protects Zr1%Nb alloy against the oxidation in air (T = 550°C, τ = 100 h) to a greater extent than the preliminary treatment in regulated oxygen-containing media.

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  1. Karpenko Physicomechanical Institute, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Lviv, Ukraine

    V. M. Fedirko, O. H. Luk’yanenko & V. S. Trush

  2. Institute of Solid State Physics, Materials Science, and Technologies, “KhFTI” NSC, Ukrainian National Academy of Science, Kharkiv, Ukraine

    P. I. Stoev & M. A. Tykhonovs’kyi

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Translated from Fizyko-Khimichna Mekhanika Materialiv, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 61–66, March–April, 2016.

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Fedirko, V.M., Luk’yanenko, O.H., Trush, V.S. et al. Effect of Thermochemical Treatment in Regulated Gas Media on the Thermal Resistance of Zr1%Nb Alloy. Mater Sci 52, 209–215 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11003-016-9945-x

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