Abstract
Thermal stability is a crucial issue for engineering application of tungsten, especially as plasma facing material in future fusion reactor. Two kinds of ODS-W alloys of W-0.5Y2O3 (WY) and W-0.5Y2O3-0.25Ti (WYT) were fabricated by ball milling and spark plasma sintering aiming at formation of oxide dispersoids with different crystallographic structures. Thermal stability of both ODS-W alloys was evaluated in terms of microhardness and microstructure evolution during isothermal aging at 1100 °C. Dispersoids of sesquioxide Y2O3 were identified in sintered WY, while pyrochlore Y2Ti2O7 with finer size and higher number density were developed in sintered WYT, resulting in higher bending strength of 1020 MPa and microhardness of 880 HV. Compared with sesquioxide Y2O3, complex dispersoids of pyrochlore Y2Ti2O7 exhibited much better coarsening resistance during isothermal aging at 1100 °C up to 100 h, where the intracrystalline and GB dispersoids maintained around 10 nm and 30 nm, respectively. The excellent coarsening resistance of complex Y2Ti2O7 with pyrochlore structure contributed to grain refinement and improved microstructure stability of WYT due to the effect of Zener drag.
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