Influence of the Initial Treatment on the Structure of Hafnium Bronze upon High-Speed Pressing

It is shown that initial treatment (quenching or annealing) has a significant effect on the evolution of the structure of hafnium bronze upon dynamic channel-angular pressing (DCAP). Upon annealing, hafnium becomes bound into particles of the intermetallic compound Cu 5 Hf, and the annealed samples are only insignificantly strengthened upon DCAP. Upon quenching, Hf remains in the solid solution, and the strengthening effect upon DCAP is much greater. Twinning becomes the main deformation mechanism for quenched bronze upon DCAP.