D. Jonsen et al., INFLUENCE OF HYDROGEN-INDUCED ORDERING ON THE TENSILE AND FATIGUE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ALLOY SYSTEM PD1-XMNX (X=0.1-0.25), Materials science & engineering. A, Structural materials: properties, microstructure and processing, 199(2), 1995, pp. 131-138
Tensile, microhardness and fatigue tests were carried out on palladium
-manganese alloys with manganese contents in the range 10-25 at.%. Eac
h alloy was examined in three structural forms: a disordered form, an
Al3Zr-ordered form and a hydrogen-induced Ll(2)-ordered form. While th
e disordered and Al3Zr-ordered forms of a particular alloy have quite
similar mechanical properties, the Ll(2)-ordered form of the alloy dif
fers markedly from the others. It has been found that the Ll(2)-ordere
d form of an alloy has enhanced strength and hardness, together with r
educed ductility and fatigue life, compared with either the disordered
or Al3Zr-ordered forms. These differences are attributed to the forma
tion of a hydride phase in each alloy during the preparation of the Ll
(2)-ordered structure.