Microstructures and Mechanical Behavior of Two-Phase Niobium Silicide-Niobium Alloys

1988 ◽  
Vol 133 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. G. Mendiratta ◽  
D. M. Dimiduk

ABSTRACTIn the Nb-Si system, it is possible to produce in-situ composites consisting of a brittle Nb5Si3 intermetallic matrix and ductile Nb particles. The two phases are thermochemically stable up to ∼ 1500∼C and are amenable to wide microstructural variations including morphology, volume fraction, and the size of the individual microconstituents. This paper presents microstructures and phase transformations in these composites as a function of composition and heat treatments and bend properties from room-temperature to 1400°C.

1999 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Alzebdeh ◽  
M. Ostoja-Starzewaski

Two challenges in mechanics of granular media are taken up in this paper: (i) development of adequate numerical discrete element models of topologically disordered granular assemblies, and (ii) calculation of macroscopic elastic moduli of such materials using effective medium theories. Consideration of the first one leads to an adaptation of a spring-network (Kirkwood) model of solid-state physics to disordered systems, which is developed in the context of planar Delaunay networks. The model employs two linear springs: a normal one along an edge connecting two neighboring vertices (grain centers) which accounts for normal interactions between the grains, as well as an angular one which accounts for angle changes between two edges incident onto the same vertex; edges remain straight and grain rotations do not appear. This model is then used to predict elastic moduli of two-phase granular materials—random mixtures of soft and stiff grains —for high coordination numbers. It is found here that an effective Poisson’s ratio, νeff, of such a mixture is a convex function of the volume fraction, so that νeff may become negative when the individual Poisson’s ratios of both phases are both positive. Additionally, the usefulness of three effective medium theories—perfect disks, symmetric ellipses, and asymmetric ellipses—is tested.


2006 ◽  
Vol 510-511 ◽  
pp. 458-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Lu ◽  
H.C. Kim ◽  
Je Hyun Lee ◽  
Myung Hoon Oh ◽  
Dang Moon Wee ◽  
...  

Directional or single crystal technique was applied to enhance the ductility, and two phases of γ (Ni) phase or β (NiAl) phase in γ‘(Ni3Al) matrix were also considered to increase the strength and ductility. In this study, directionally solidified rods were prepared at the solidification rate of 50µm/s in 23-27 at.% Al-Ni alloys, and tensile strengths of these rods were analyzed at room temperature. Directionally solidified samples showed the γ dendrite fibers formed in the Ni3Al matrix in the hypo eutectic composition of 23 at.% Al, the γ‘ single phase in the eutectic composition of 24.5 at. % Al, and the β dendrite fibers in the γ‘ matrix in the hyper eutectic compositions of 25, 26, 27 at.% Al. The hypoeutectic alloy including γ dendrites with γ‘ matrix exhibited a large elongation of over 70% with ductile transgranular fracture at room temperature. With increasing Al contents, the γ dendritic microstructure changed to the β dendrite in the γ‘ matrix, which resulted in decreasing the elongation by increasing the volume fraction of the brittle β dendrites in the ductile γ’ matrix.


2010 ◽  
Vol 152-153 ◽  
pp. 1437-1440
Author(s):  
Gui Rong Li ◽  
Yu Tao Zhao ◽  
Hong Ming Wang ◽  
Gang Chen

(Al3Ti)p/6351 composites were in situ synthesized via direct melt reaction between 6351 wrought aluminum alloy and K2TiF6 at 720°C. OM, SEM and EDS are utilized to analyze the microstructure and components of composites. The fusing agents of CaF2 and LiCl are mixed with K2TiF6 to lower the temperature of initial in situ reaction. The volume fraction of Al3Ti is 3%.The size of Al3Ti is in the range of 2~4μm, which is much lowered than that fabricated by conventional process. Due to the calcium element from CaF2 the size of Mg2Si phases are decreased to 1~2μm.The microns of independent silicon phases are also observed in the squeezed section. The grain size of α-Al is fined to 30~40μm, which is due to the disperse effect of Al3Ti. The tensile, yield properties and elongation are at room temperature are 365MPa, 320MPa and 10.2%.


2012 ◽  
Vol 710 ◽  
pp. 66-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dipankar Banerjee ◽  
Adam L. Pilchak ◽  
James C. Williams

We review the effect of processing on structure and texture in titanium alloys, focusing on the understanding of this relationship that has evolved over the last decade. Thermomechanical processing cycles for these alloys involve deformation and heat treatment in single phase β and two phase, α+β, phase fields, and involves a complex interplay between deformation and recrystallization textures of the individual phases, textures arising from the crystallographic relationship between the two phases, and the scale of microstructure evolution. We explore these interactions and trace the strong dependence of thermomechanical pathways on the final structure and texture.


1991 ◽  
Vol 248 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Perrot ◽  
T. Baumberger

AbstractPhase separation in an off-critical binary mixture is studied under an uniform and steady shear flow. The nucleation and subsequent growth of droplets in aweakly supersaturated mixture (volume fraction of the new phase smaller than 10%) is studied by small angle scattering and turbidity measurements. The completion of the nucleation process is shown to be accelerated by the shear flow. At very low supersaturation, a strong effect of shear is detected which can be related to shear-triggered nucleation. In situ measurements ’of the surface tension between the two phase-separating phases obtained by studying the deformation and tilt of the growing droplets is discussed.


Author(s):  
A. Misra ◽  
R. Gibala

Ductile phase reinforcement is an attractive approach for enhancing the room temperature ductility and toughness of brittle intermetallics such as β−NiAl. For example, a directionally solidified alloy of nominal composition 70 at.% Ni −30 at.% Al, having a two-phase β (brittle matrix) and γ (ductile second phase) microstructure, exhibits up to 9% tensile ductility at room temperature [1]. In the present investigation, a microscopic study has been made to understand the mechanisms involved in the ductility enhancement of the β + γ composite.


2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 494-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min-min Wang ◽  
Wei-jie Lu ◽  
Jining Qin ◽  
Fengcang Ma ◽  
Junqiang Lu ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (01) ◽  
pp. 1750005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedict Prah ◽  
Rin Yun

The formation of CO2 hydrate during CO2 transportation presents a complex two-phase flow within tube. A two-dimensional CFD model for CO2 hydrate mixture flow in tube is derived based on the Eulerian multiphase flow modeling approach in which the two phases consist of CO2 gas and CO2 hydrate particles. A coupled Eulerian multiphase and nonisothermal flow model without phase-change is developed based on COMSOL Multiphysics built-in application modes. The model couples the mass, momentum, and energy equations for the two phases to solve the temperature and flow characteristics of the CO2 hydrate mixture flow in tube. CO2 hydrate particles are found to settle down during flow even under high velocity operation. The pressure drop increased linearly with inlet volume fraction from 1.29[Formula: see text]kPa for 0.1–5.2[Formula: see text]kPa for 0.5, and the related overall heat transfer coefficients of the CO2 hydrate mixture computed from the model ranged from 980 to 4000[Formula: see text]W/m2K with variation of CO2 hydrate volume fraction.


2010 ◽  
Vol 638-642 ◽  
pp. 2274-2278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasuhiro Kuno ◽  
Yasuo Nakane ◽  
Takao Kozakai ◽  
Minoru Doi ◽  
Junji Yamanaka ◽  
...  

When Fe-10.3mol%Ni-14.3mol%Al alloy is heated at 1173 K for 8.64104 s, a number of B2 precipitates are dispersed in the A2 matrix. When the two-phase microstructure of A2+B2 is aged at 973 K, the phase-separation of B2 precipitate particles takes place to form a new A2 phase in each B2 particle. In the course of further ageing at 973 K, the new A2 phase grows but decreases in number, and finally only one A2 particle is left in the individual B2 particles. The appearance of new A2 phase in each B2 precipitate is due to the difference in the volume fraction of A2 phase that should exist in A2+B2 two-phase system depending on the heating temperature: i.e., the phase-separation of B2 precipitates starts with the aid of chemical free energy.


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