Abstract
Phase transformations induced by high pressure torsion (HPT) at room temperature in two samples of the Cu-0.86at.% Cr alloy, pre-annealed at 550°C and 1000°C, were studied in order to obtain two different initial states for the HPT procedure. Observation of microstructure of the samples before HPT revealed that the sample annealed at 550°C contained two types of Cr precipitates in the Cu matrix: large particles (size about 500nm) and small ones (size about 70nm). The sample annealed at 1000°C showed only a little fraction of Cr precipitates (size about 2μm). The subsequent HPT process resulted in the partial dissolution of Cr precipitates in the first sample and dissolution of Cr precipitates with simultaneous decomposition of the supersaturated solid solution in another. However, the resulting microstructure of the samples after HPT was very similar from the standpoint of grain size, phase composition, texture analysis and hardness measurements.
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