Phase transformations in Fe-Mn alloys induced by ball milling

S.M. COTES, A.F. CABRERA, L.C. DAMONTE, R.C. MERCADER AND J. DESIMONI

HYPERFINE INTERACTIONS

Springer

Año: 2002 vol. 141 p. 409 - 414

0304-3843

We have studied the dependence on the milling time of the amounts of metastable fcc and hcp phases produced by ball milling on Fe-13.7 wt.% Mn alloys by Mössbauer spectrsocopy and X-ray diffraction. The relative proportions of  g-Fe(Mn) fcc and e-Fe(Mn) hcp increase with milling times up to 9 h and decline afterwards. A random solid solution of Mn in the a-Fe matrix is found for milling times up to 15h. Mn segregations is observed alter 25 h. The evolution of the relative percentages suggest that ball milling brings about processes that on the one hand induce the fcc/hcp martensitic transformation, and on the other favour transformations towards the phases dictated by the thermodynamic phase diagram.