The Effect of Heat Treatment and Different Degrees of Deformation on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Pure Mo Sheets

Molybdenum has a broad application and good prospect in the field of nuclear energy, aerospace, electronics, etc., due to its high melting point, high hardness, corrosion resistance and other excellent performances. In this paper, an isothermal and isochronous annealing heat treatment, at the temperature of 800–1300 °C for 0.5–2 h, was applied to pure molybdenum (PM) sheets with deformation of 70%, 80%, 90%, and 95%. The initial deformation of the PM sheet was increased from 70% to 95%. After annealing at 900–1200 °C for 1 h, the recrystallized grain size gradually decreased. The Goss texture ({110}<001>) was always present in the pure molybdenum sheet with 95% deformation during heat treatment, but its strength decreased with the increase of the temperature. The copper texture ({112}<110>) deflected to a cubic texture, and its orientation changed from {001}<110> to that of cube texture {110}<100>. With the increase of the temperature, the cubic texture was obtained more easily in the pure molybdenum sheet. The recrystallization nucleation mechanism of the pure molybdenum sheet with 95% deformation was mainly in situ nucleation and orientation nucleation. The Avrami index of the pure molybdenum sheet with 95% deformation was calculated by the JMAK equation and found to be 3.6.