The ductility improvement of the electron beam melted molybdenum due to the addition of small amounts of boron carbide, yittrium, beryllium, germanium, etc. (0.02∼0.1 wt%) has been studied mainly by means of the tensile test, the Charpy impact test, resistance ratio measurements and O
2 gas analysis. The recrystallization temperatures of the electron beam melted molybdenum wires with the addition of small amounts of boron carbide (below 0.05 wt%) and yittrium (0.02 wt%) were depressed 50°∼100°C than those of conventional molybdenum wires produced by the sintering method and the electron beam melting method without additions of alloying elements. And the yield stress of recrystallized wires were also about 15% lower than those of conventional molybdenum wires.
The maximum elongation values of boron carbide and yittrium added molybdenum wires were 45% and 37%, respectively, and these values were 10 to 50% higher than that of conventional molybdenum wire. The ductile to brittle transition temperature of the electron beam melted molybdenum rod was lowered by a small boron carbide addition (0.02 wt%) and an excellent ductility was obtained at room temperature for the fully recrystallized specimens.
The measured residual resistivity of some elctron beam melted molybdenum wires with the addition of small quantities of boron carbide and yittrium were less than 1/2 as compared to that of conventional molybdenum wire, and correspondingly the O
2 gas content were about 1/2∼1/14 of the O
2 gas content of conventional molybdenum wires.
According to the electron diffraction patterns, the grain boundary inclusions of molybdenum ingots with the addition of yittrium were neither carbide nor oxide of molybdenum and yittrium, suggesting the presence of complex compound, which was thought to be independent of grain boundary brittleness.
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