Incorporation d'azote et d'oxygène dans les nanoparticules formées par traitement de surface laser de cibles métalliques dans l'air

International audience; Lors de l'irradiation de matériaux métalliques tels que l'aluminium, le fer ou le titane par un faisceau laser de courte durée d'impulsion (de l'ordre de la nanoseconde), il se forme une vapeur très énergétique et fortement ionisée appelée plume-plasma. A la fin de l'interaction, ce plasma se refroidit et se détend à des vitesses supersoniques. Des nanoparticules résultent de la condensation de cette vapeur métallique dans l'air, donc de la réactivité chimique avec les gaz réactifs de l'air tels que l'azote et l'oxygène. L'objectif de cette étude est de quantifier la quantité d'éléments légers afin de comprendre les mécanismes physiques mis en jeu dans le plasma, cré…

A Thermo-Kinetic Study of Titanium Oxidation Assisted by a Nd-YAG Pulsed Laser

Improving the high temperature (HT) oxidation resistance of a Beta-Titanium alloys by mechanical treatments

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Improving the high temperature oxidation resistance of pure titanium by shot-peening treatments

International audience; Shot-peening (SP) treatments have shown their capacity to improve the oxidation resistance of titanium and zirconium thanks to the large compressive stresses and the surface hardening induced by this mechanical process. However, shot-peening treatments can produce a surface chemical deposit, which can modify the high temperature oxidation resistance. Here, we study pure titanium samples shot-peened with different type of balls: tungsten carbide, alumina or glass. The oxidation behavior was studied at 700 °C in dry air by thermo gravimetric analysis for short isotherm oxidation periods up to 100 h. Also, long oxidation tests (3000 h) at 700 °C were performed with an i…

Influence of surface Shock-peening treatment on high temperature oxidation of Titanium

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Influence of laser–target interaction regime on composition and properties of surface layers grown by laser treatment of Ti plates

Surface laser treatment of commercially pure titanium plates was performed in air using two different Nd : YAG sources delivering pulses of 5 and 35 ns. The laser fluence conditions were set to obtain with each source either yellow or blue surface layers. Nuclear reaction analysis (NRA) was used to quantify the amount of light elements in the formed layers. Titanium oxinitrides, containing different amounts of oxygen and nitrogen, were mainly found, except in the case of long pulses and high laser fluence, which led to the growth of titanium dioxide. The structure of the layers was studied by x-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy. In addition, reflectance spectra showed the transition fr…

Retarding the high temperature oxidation of Titanium by shot-peening surface treatment

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Wavelength influence on nitrogen insertion into titanium by nanosecond pulsed laser irradiation in air

Abstract We studied in this work the influence of the wavelength (532 vs. 1064 nm) on the insertion of nitrogen in titanium targets by surface laser treatments in air. The laser pulses were of 5 ns and the irradiance was lower than 25 × 10 12  W/m 2 . Results obtained using a frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser at 532 nm were compared with those previously reported for laser treatments at 1064 nm. Nuclear reaction analysis and micro-Raman spectroscopy were used for determining the composition and the structure of the surface layers, respectively. Results showed the lower efficiency of irradiation at 532 nm for nitrogen insertion, which is possible only above threshold conditions depending on bot…

High-resolution characterization of the diffusion of light chemical elements in metallic components by scanning microwave microscopy

International audience; An original sub-surface, high spatial resolution tomographic technique based on scanning microwave microscopy (SMM) is used to visualize in-depth materials with different chemical compositions. A significant phase difference in SMM between aluminum and chromium buried patterns has been observed. Moreover this technique was used to characterize a solid solution of a light chemical element (oxygen) in a metal lattice (zirconium). The large solubility of the oxygen in zirconium leads to modifications of the properties of the solid solution that can be measured by the phase shift signal in the SMM technique. The signal obtained in cross-section of an oxidized Zr sample s…

Influence of the composition of titanium oxynitride layers on the fretting behavior of functionalized titanium substrates: PVD films versus surface laser treatments

International audience; Abstract In this work we compared the fretting behavior of pure titanium plates functionalized with titanium oxynitride surface layers, obtained by two methods: a Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) method, reactive magnetron sputtering, and Surface Laser Treatments (SLT), under different mixtures of oxygen and nitrogen. The composition of the layers was determined by nuclear reaction analysis (NRA) and their structure was analyzed by Raman spectroscopy. PVD layers were TiN-like fcc layers, with an oxygen concentration going from 36 to 50 at.%. Three SLT layers were studied. The first one was a TiN-like layer containing ~28 at.% of oxygen. The second one was formed of di…