Isothermal Annealing of Shocked Zirconium: Stability of the Two-phase $\alpha /\omega$ Microstructure

Thaddeus Song En Low, Donald W. Brown, Brian A. Welk +3

Under high pressure conditions, Zr undergoes a phase transformation from its ambient equilibrium hexagonal close packed $\alpha$ phase to hexagonal $\omega$ phase. Upon returning to ambient…