Influence of interstitial elements (oxygen, nitrogen) on properties of zirconium alloys (review)

Vasyl Trush; Mykola Pylypenko; Petro Stoev; Mikhail Tikhonovsky; Iryna Pohrelyuk; Viktor Fedirko; Alexander Luk’yanenko; Sergii Lavrys

doi:10.15330/pcss.23.2.401-415

Authors

Vasyl Trush Karpenko Physico-Mechanical Institute of the NAS of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine
Mykola Pylypenko Institute of Solid State Physics Materials and Technologies National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine National Science Center «Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology», Kharkiv, Ukraine
Petro Stoev Institute of Solid State Physics Materials and Technologies National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine National Science Center «Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology», Kharkiv, Ukraine
Mikhail Tikhonovsky Institute of Solid State Physics Materials and Technologies National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine National Science Center «Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology», Kharkiv, Ukraine
Iryna Pohrelyuk Karpenko Physico-Mechanical Institute of the NAS of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine
Viktor Fedirko Karpenko Physico-Mechanical Institute of the NAS of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine
Alexander Luk’yanenko Karpenko Physico-Mechanical Institute of the NAS of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine
Sergii Lavrys Karpenko Physico-Mechanical Institute of the NAS of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15330/pcss.23.2.401-415

Keywords:

zirconium alloys, oxygen, nitrogen, solubility, physical and mechanical properties

Abstract

A review of the regularities of the influence of interstitial elements (oxygen, nitrogen) on the properties of zirconium alloys was presented. It was noted that in the scientific and technical literature dates the main attention is paid to the bulk alloying of zirconium alloys with oxygen and nitrogen at high temperatures. It was shown that zirconium with nitrogen and oxygen forms a number of stable compounds of suboxides and subnitrides. The physico-mechanical characteristics of zirconium after heat treatment under media containing both oxygen and nitrogen components on the properties of zirconium alloys were analysed.

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