The interaction between hydrogen and thermally induced defects has been studied in nickel samples using the positron annihilation technique. From measurements further evidence has been found for agglomeration of vacancies and small vacancy complexes into large-size three-dimensional void-like defects in the plastically deformed and electron beam irradiated samples containing hydrogen.
The angular correlation curves of annihilation quanta and isochronal annealing curves for the plastically deformed nickel samples charged with helium have been measured. The results indicate that helium is effectively trapped at crystal lattice defects and is released from them at the temperature below 350 K.
Angular distribution of the positron annihilation quanta was measured for monocrystalline gold samples, oriented in (110) and (111) directions. The samples were deformed by elongation for different deformation degrees. The S and W parameters as a function of deformation degree of the sample were determined. It was found that the dynamics of the dislocations and vacancy generation during the sliding of some crystallographic planes, depends on the crystallographic direction.
Angular distributions of the positron annihilation quanta were measured for pure and hydrogenated palladium samples deformed by uniaxial tension up to different deformation degrees. The relative difference curves, and the values of the R parameter characterizing the dimensions of defects trapping the positrons, were determined. It was found that for relative elongations ranging from 1.9 to 3.5%, in both the pure and hydrogenated palladium, the positrons are trapped in defects larger than vacancy clusters. The values of the R parameter for pure palladium samples elongated up to 0.39, 0.77, and 1.5% indicate a dominant role of smaller defects, like the vacancy clusters.
Peak coincidence counting rate and positron lifetime spectra for deformed by cold-rolling, and annealed by four hours in the temperature 973 K, hydrogen free and hydrogenated PdCu with 23% Cu samples, in the temperature range from room temperature to about 720 K were measured. It was found that hydrogen improved to tempered samples creates defects that are annealed to the temperature about 525 K. In the cold-rolled up to deformation degree of 50% samples, hydrogen is trapped at defects, probably vacancies, forming H-V complexes, that become disappearing in the vicinity of the temperature at 350 K.
Angular distributions of the positron annihilation quanta were measured for polycrystalline samples deformed by uniaxial tension up to different deformation degrees. The S parameter as a function of the W parameter was determined. The data obtained for samples elongated up to different elongation degrees indicate that in the proportionality and limited proportionality regions the changes in the physical properties of samples are governed mainly by generation of vacancies and formation and kinetics of transformations of vacancy clusters occurring first of all on the grains of monocrystallites. In the region of plastic deformations the dominant defects are dislocations and vacancies and their aggregates generated due to the formation and movement of the dislocation of the primary and secondary slip. The positron annihilation data are corroborated by the results of the resistometric and tensometric measurements in the proportionality and limited proportionality regions.
Results of experimental investigations of uniaxially elongated mono- and polycrystalline samples of several metals (Fe, Ta, Pd, Ag, and Au), performed using the positron annihilation methods, are reviewed. The dependences of the S-parameters and positron lifetimes on the relative elongation of the samples were presented. The data obtained for polycrystalline samples indicate that in the proportionality and limited proportionality regions the changes in the physical properties are governed mainly by generation of vacancies and by kinetics of formation and transformations of vacancy clusters occurring first of all on the grain boundaries of monocrystallites. In the region of plastic deformations the dominant defects are dislocations and vacancies and their aggregates generated due to the formation and movement of the dislocations of the primary and secondary slip. In the case of monocrystalline samples it was found that the dynamics of the dislocations and vacancy generation during the sliding of some crystallographic planes depends on the crystallographic direction.
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