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Effect of crystal orientation on microstructure and properties of bulk Fe2B intermetallic

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The effects of Fe2B-grain orientation on microstructure and properties of bulk Fe2B intermetallic fabricated by directional and ordinary solidification techniques have been investigated. The results show that unidirectional solidified Fe2B intermetallic possesses a strong (002) texture in the transverse direction owing to the opposite unidirectional heat-squeeze effect while random Fe2B grains can be produced under ordinary solidification conditions. The nonoriented Fe2B intermetallic has the highest linear expansion coefficient of 13.04 × 10−6 °C−1 while the microhardness and fracture toughness of transverse Fe2B intermetallic in the (002) plane are larger than those of Fe2B with other grain orientations and their values are ∼18.72 GPa and 6.42 MPa·m1/2, respectively. Liquid zinc corrosion results indicate that unidirectional Fe2B intermetallic with long axis perpendicular to the direction of liquid zinc corrosion displays the best corrosion resistance to liquid zinc owing to its beneficial barrier effect. The FeB transition phase can naturally form and grow parabolically during liquid zinc corrosion.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors thank the financial support for this work from the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 51271142, 51301128, & 51274016, the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China under Grant Nos. 20110201130008 & 20120201120005, the National Science Foundation for Post-doctoral Scientists of China under Grant Nos. 2012M521767 & 2013T60875, the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province under Grant No. 2014JQ7281, the Shaanxi provincial post-doctoral research project, and the Fundamental Research Funds of Xi’an Jiaotong University under Grant Nos. xjj2013038 & xjj2014167.

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, 710049, People’s Republic of China

    Shengqiang Ma, Zhifu Huang, Jiandong Xing, Guangzhu Liu, Yong Wang & Yefei Li

  2. MOE Key Laboratory of Thermo-Fluid Science and Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, 710049, People’s Republic of China

    Yaling He

  3. Research Institute of Advanced Materials Processing Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, People’s Republic of China

    Hanguang Fu

  4. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, 710054, People’s Republic of China

    Dawei Yi

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Ma, S., Huang, Z., Xing, J. et al. Effect of crystal orientation on microstructure and properties of bulk Fe2B intermetallic. Journal of Materials Research 30, 257–265 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2014.383

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