Mechanical Properties, Fracture Behavior, and Grainboundary Chemistry of B-Doped Nial

1990 ◽  
Vol 186 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. P. George ◽  
C. T. Liu ◽  
J. J. Liao
Keyword(s):  
Yield Strength ◽  
Grain Boundaries ◽  
Intergranular Fracture ◽  
Fracture Mode ◽  
Fracture Behavior ◽  
Boron Concentration ◽  
Tensile Ductility ◽  
Transgranular Cleavage ◽  
Boron Doped ◽  
Fracture Ductility

AbstractThis paper summarizes the results of our work aimed at overcoming the intrinsic grainboundary weakness of NiAI by microalloying with boron. In previous work we have shown that 300 wppm boron is very effective in suppressing intergranular fracture in NiAI [1]. It does this by segregating strongly to the grain boundaries and strengthening them. Despite this dramatic effect on the fracture mode, however, boron is unable to improve ductility because it is a potent solid solution strengthener, more than doubling the yield strength relative to that of undoped NiA1. The present work attempts to decrease this deleterious hardening effect by lowering the bulk concentration of boron in NiA1. Our results show that if the boron concentration in the bulk is lowered to 30 wppm, the yield strength of boron-doped NiA1 is only about 30% higher than that of undoped NiAI. In addition, there is enough boron at the grain boundaries of this alloy to suppress intergranular fracture. Under these conditions, boron-doped NiAI has a tensile ductility of 2%, which is essentially identical to that of undoped NiA1. This result, namely that the strengthening of grain boundaries by boron does not by itself improve ductility, indicates that although grain boundaries might well be the weakest links in NiAI, cleavage planes are not much stronger. In other words, even though boron additions serve to strengthen the grain boundaries and suppress intergranular fracture, ductility is not improved, because the next brittle fracture mode, namely transgranular cleavage, takes over before significant plastic deformation can occur.

Brittle fracture and grain boundary chemistry of microalloyed NiAl

1990 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 754-762 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. P. George ◽  
C. T. Liu
Keyword(s):  
Solid Solution ◽  
Yield Strength ◽  
Grain Boundary ◽  
Grain Boundaries ◽  
Intergranular Fracture ◽  
Fracture Mode ◽  
Tensile Ductility ◽  
Hard Sphere Model ◽  
Strengthening Effect ◽  
Boundary Chemistry

The room-temperature tensile properties, fracture mode, and grain boundary chemistry of undoped stoichiometric NiAl, as well as NiAl doped with boron, carbon, and beryllium, have been investigated, Pure, stoichiometric NiAl fractures with limited tensile ductility in a predominantly intergranular manner. Auger analyses revealed that the grain boundaries in NiAl are extremely clean and free of any segregated impurities, indicating that they are intrinsically brittle. Boron, when added to stoichiometric NiAl at a bulk level of 300 wt. ppm, segregates to the grain boundaries and suppresses intergranular fracture. However, there is no attendant improvement in tensile ductility because boron is an extremely potent solid solution strengthener in NiAl, more than doubling its yield strength. As a result, any potential benefit of improving grain boundary strength is more than offset by the increase in yield strength. Unlike boron, both carbon (300 ppm) and beryllium (500 ppm) are ineffective in suppressing intergranular fracture in NiAl, and Auger analyses of the C-doped alloy revealed that carbon did not affect the fracture mode because it did not segregate to the grain boundaries. Although neither beryllium nor carbon suppressed grain boundary fracture, their effects on the tensile ductility of NiAl were quite different: the ductility of the Be-doped alloy was higher than that of the B-doped alloy because beryllium, unlike boron, has a rather modest strengthening effect in NiAl, whereas the C-doped alloy was brittle like the B-doped alloy, because carbon is a potent solid solution strengthener, just like boron. These observations were rationalized by considering a hard-sphere model for interstitial and substitutional sites in NiAl. It was concluded that boron and carbon occupy interstitial sites, whereas beryllium dissolves substitutionally. In all the alloys that were investigated, the Ni and Al contents of the grain boundaries were not significantly different from the bulk levels, and no evidence was found for B–Ni cosegregation.

Effect of chromium on properties of Fe3Al

1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 1156-1163 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. G. McKamey ◽  
J. A. Horton ◽  
C. T. Liu
Keyword(s):  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Fracture Mode ◽  
Mixed Mode ◽  
Fracture Behavior ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Antiphase Boundary ◽  
Transgranular Cleavage ◽  
Room Temperature Ductility ◽  
Wavy Slip ◽  
Strength And Ductility

The effects of the addition of chromium on several properties of Fe3Al, including tensile strength and ductility, fracture behavior, and slip and dislocation characteristics, were studied. Alloying with up to 6 at. % chromium results in an increase in room temperature ductility from approximately 4% to 8–10%. Along with this increase in ductility, the addition of chromium produces a change in fracture mode from transgranular cleavage to a mixed mode of intergranular-transgranular cleavage, and a change in slip behavior from coarse straight slip to fine wavy slip. These phenomena are discussed in terms of the effect of chromium on the antiphase boundary energies and dislocation characteristics.

Study of Bonding of Grain Boundaries in Steels Using EELS

2005 ◽  
Vol 475-479 ◽  
pp. 4063-4066
Author(s):  
X. Zhang ◽  
Lina Zhang ◽  
Jun Jie Qi ◽  
Yue Ma
Keyword(s):  
Grain Boundary ◽  
Grain Boundaries ◽  
Intergranular Fracture ◽  
Fracture Mode ◽  
Fracture Property ◽  
Transgranular Fracture ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

A novel EELS technique was developed to study bonding of grain boundary in many kinds of steels. We measured the normalized intensities of Fe white lines and calculated the occupancies of 3d states of iron, and then analyzed the relationship of the occupancies of 3d states of iron and the fracture property of the steels. We found that if the grain boundary has a different occupancy of 3d state of iron from that of the bulk, the steel tends to have an intergranular fracture, whereas if the grain boundary has almost the same occupancy of 3d state as the bulk, the steel tends to have a transgranular fracture. Our result shows that the difference in the occupancy of 3d state between bulk and grain boundary can be used to study the fracture mode at grain boundary in steel.

Room Temperature Tensile Ductility in Powder Processed B2 FeAi Alloys

1986 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Crimp ◽  
K. M. Vedula ◽  
D. J. Gaydosh
Keyword(s):  
Fracture Surface ◽  
Yield Strength ◽  
Grain Boundary ◽  
Grain Boundaries ◽  
Cooling Rate ◽  
Yield Stress ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Tensile Ductility ◽  
Strengthening Mechanism ◽  
General Yielding

AbstractIt has been shown that it is possible to obtain significant room temperature tensile ductility in FeAl alloys using iron-rich deviations from stoichiometry. A comparison of the room temperature tensile and compressive behaviors of Fe−50at% Al and Fe−40at% Al shows that FeAl is brittle at higher Al contents because it fractures along grain boundaries before general yielding. Lower aluminium contents reduce the yield stress substantially and hence some ductility is observed before fracture.Addition of boron results in measurable improvements in ductility of Fe−40at% Al and is accompanied by an increase in transgranular tearing on the fracture surface, suggesting a grain boundary strengthening mechanism.Increasing the cooling rate following annealing at 1273 K results in a large increase in the yield strength and a corresponding decrease in ductility.

High Toughness Alumina/Aluminate: The Role Of Hetero-Interfaces

1995 ◽  
Vol 409 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. Brito ◽  
M. Yasuoka ◽  
S. Kanzaki
Keyword(s):  
Grain Boundaries ◽  
Intergranular Fracture ◽  
Fracture Mode ◽  
Auger Electron ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Interfacial Debonding ◽  
Amorphous Phases ◽  
High Toughness ◽  
Interface Structures

AbstractSilica doped alumina/aluminate materials present a combination of high strength and high toughness not achieved before in other alumina systems, except for transformation toughened alumina. We have associated the increase in toughness to crack bridging by anisotropically grown alumina grains with concurrent interfacial debonding of these grains. A HREM study of grain boundaries and hetero-interface structures in this material shows the absence of amorphous phases at grain boundaries. Local Auger electron analysis of fractured surfaces revealed the coexistence of Si and La at the grain facets exposed by the noticeable intergranular fracture mode of this material. It is concluded that a certain and important degree of boundaries weakness is related to both, presence of Si at the interfaces and existence of alumina/aluminate hetero-interfaces.

Room Temperature Tensile Ductility in Polycrystalline B2 NiAl

1988 ◽  
Vol 133 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Vedula ◽  
K. H. Hahn ◽  
B. Boulogne
Keyword(s):  
Yield Strength ◽  
Grain Boundaries ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Tensile Ductility ◽  
Lower Yield ◽  
Polycrystalline Alloys ◽  
Lower Yield Strength ◽  
Stoichiometric Alloy

ABSTRACTBinary polycrystalline alloys of B2 NiAl, ranging from 47 to 51.5 at% Al, were prepared by casting and extrusion. These were tested in tension at temperatures ranging from 300 K to 873 K. Significant tensile ductility is observed in the near-stoichiometric alloy at room temperature as well as at 473 K in spite of the presence of only <100> dislocations. This anomaly appears to be related to the recrystallized texture, to the lower yield strength and to the presence of residual dislocations at grain boundaries in this alloy.

Morphology and atomic structure of segregated grain boundaries in Cu-Sb

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 254-255
Author(s):  
R. W. Fonda ◽  
D. E. Luzzi
Keyword(s):  
Grain Boundary ◽  
Grain Boundaries ◽  
Intergranular Fracture ◽  
Atomic Structure ◽  
Copper Alloys ◽  
Polycrystalline Materials ◽  
Grain Boundary Embrittlement ◽  
Boundary Embrittlement

The properties of polycrystalline materials are strongly dependant upon the strength of internal boundaries. Segregation of solute to the grain boundaries can adversely affect this strength. In copper alloys, segregation of either bismuth or antimony to the grain boundary will embrittle the alloy by facilitating intergranular fracture. Very small quantities of bismuth in copper have long been known to cause severe grain boundary embrittlement of the alloy. The effect of antimony is much less pronounced and is observed primarily at lower temperatures. Even though moderate amounts of antimony are fully soluble in copper, concentrations down to 0.14% can cause grain boundary embrittlement.

Atomic and Electronic Structure of Boron-Doped Diamond Grain Boundaries Studied by Arhvtem and ab-Initio Calculation

2003 ◽  
Vol 764 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Togawa ◽  
Hideki Ichinose
Keyword(s):  
Ab Initio ◽  
Grain Boundaries ◽  
Ab Initio Calculation ◽  
Structure Model ◽  
Boron Doped Diamond ◽  
Boron Doped ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Diamond Grain ◽  
Electron Energy Loss ◽  
Atomic And Electronic Structure

AbstractAtomic resolution high-voltage transmission electron microscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy were performed on grain boundaries of boron-doped diamond, cooperated with the ab-initio calculation. Segregated boron in the {112}∑3 boundary was caught by the EELS spectra. The change in atomic structure of the segregated boundary was successfully observed from the image by ARHVTEM. Based on the ARHVTEM image, a segregted structure model was proposed.

Fracture Toughness Testing and its Implications to Engineering Fracture Mechanics Analysis of Energy Pipelines

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Limon ◽  
Peter Martin ◽  
Mike Barnum ◽  
Robert Pilarczyk
Keyword(s):  
Fracture Toughness ◽  
Fracture Mechanics ◽  
Test Data ◽  
Fracture Mode ◽  
Fracture Process ◽  
Fracture Behavior ◽  
Fracture Initiation ◽  
Fracture Toughness Testing ◽  
Final Fracture ◽  
Toughness Testing

The fracture process of energy pipelines can be described in terms of fracture initiation, stable fracture propagation and final fracture or fracture arrest. Each of these stages, and the final fracture mode (leak or rupture), are directly impacted by the tendency towards brittle or ductile behavior that line pipe steels have the capacity to exhibit. Vintage and modern low carbon steels, such as those used to manufacture energy pipelines, exhibit a temperature-dependent transition from ductile-to-brittle behavior that affects the fracture behavior. There are numerous definitions of fracture toughness in common usage, depending on the stage of the fracture process and the behavior or fracture mode being evaluated. The most commonly used definitions in engineering fracture analysis of pipelines with cracks or long-seam weld defects are related to fracture initiation, stable propagation or final fracture. When choosing fracture toughness test data for use in engineering Fracture Mechanics-based assessments of energy pipelines, it is important to identify the stage of the fracture process and the expected fracture behavior in order to appropriately select test data that represent equivalent conditions. A mismatch between the physical fracture event being modeled and the chosen experimental fracture toughness data can result in unreliable predictions or overly conservative results. This paper presents a description of the physical fracture process, behavior and failure modes that pipelines commonly exhibit as they relate to fracture toughness testing, and their implications when evaluating cracks and cracks-like features in pipelines. Because pipeline operators, and practitioners of engineering Fracture Mechanics analyses, are often faced with the challenge of only having Charpy fracture toughness available, this paper also presents a review of the various correlations of Charpy toughness data to fracture toughness data expressed in terms of KIC or JIC. Considerations with the selection of an appropriate correlation for determining the failure pressure of pipelines in the presence of cracks and long-seam weld anomalies will be discussed.

The Structure and Properties of Boundaries in Bicrystals of Boron-Doped Ni3(Al,l at% Ta)

1990 ◽  
Vol 213 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Mills ◽  
S. H. Goods ◽  
S. M. Foiles
Keyword(s):  
Room Temperature ◽  
Tensile Ductility ◽  
Al Alloy ◽  
Boron Doped ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Temperature Heat ◽  
Atomistic Calculations ◽  
Rate Of Cooling ◽  
Temperature Heat Treatment ◽  
Ductile State

ABSTRACTThe effect of boron on the structure and macroscopic properties of an isolated grain boundary in bicrystals of a non-stoichiometric Ni3Al alloy (76 at% Ni, 23 at% Al, 1 at%Ta) has been studied. The room temperature tensile ductility and fracture mode of the bicrystals varies dramatically with the rate of cooling after elevated temperature heat treatment. In the absence of significant segregation of boron to the boundary, the bicrystals fail via brittle interfacial fracture with little or no ductility. When the segregation of boron to the boundary is maximized, the bicrystals are highly ductile. High resolution transmission electron microscopy reveals that this ductile state is achieved without the formation of a detectable region of compositional disorder at the boundary. Atomistic calculations using a Monte Carlo scheme predict that only partial disordering of the planes immediately adjacent to the boundary should occur for Ni-rich alloys both with and without boron. These results suggest that the presence of boron causes an increase in the cohesive energy of the boundaries rather than a change in the local compositional ordering.

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