Abstract
A study of the impact properties of DOP-26 iridium (which contains 0.3% tungsten and ∼40 ppm thorium) at temperatures of 600 to 1,440†C revealed that the predominant mode of failure for the material is intergranular separation with occasional transgranular cleavage. DOP-26 iridium also appears to have a high notch sensitivity, in contrast to most other face-centered-cubic (fcc) metals; at elevated deformation temperatures, the dislocation substructure is similar to that of other fcc metals. In addition, regular arrays of pure edge character dislocations have been found. In the test specimens used in this study, the presence of Ir5Th particles was observed within iridium grains. The existence of these particles indicates that the role of thorium is not well understood, particularly in light of the fact that previous studies, which depended on grain boundary segregation, have shown thorium to improve grain boundary cohesion.
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