Improvement of creep-rupture properties of wrought cobalt-based HS-21 alloys at high temperatures

The improvement of creep-rupture properties by serrated grain boundaries is investigated using wrought cobalt-based HS-21 alloys in the temperature range 816 to 1038° C (1500 to 1900°F). Serrated grain-boundaries are produced in the early stage of the grain-boundary reaction (GBR) by a heat treatment. Specimens with serrated grain boundaries have superior creep-rupture properties compared with those with normal straight grain boundaries. The rupture lives of specimens with serrated grain boundaries are more than twice as long as those of specimens with straight grain boundaries. The rupture elongation is considerably improved by serrated grain boundaries especially at lower temperatures. A ductile grain-boundary fracture is observed in specimens with serrated grain boundaries, while brittle grain boundary facets prevail in specimens with straight grain boundaries.     

The creep-rupture properties and the initiation and growth of the grain-boundary cracks in the cobalt-base HS-21 alloy

The effect of the grain-boundary microstructures on the creep-rupture properties and the initiation and growth of the grain-boundary cracks was investigated using four kinds of specimen of various grain-boundary microstructures in the cobalt-base HS-21 alloy at 1089 K in air. Both the rupture strength and the creep ductility increased with increasing mean value of the fractal dimension of the grain boundaries, Dgb. The strain to crack initiation was largest in the specimen of the highest value (1.241), while the strain was much the same in the specimens of the Dgb value less than 1.162. This was explained by the local variation in the grain-boundary microstructures in these specimens. The mean value of the fractal dimension of the grain-boundary fracture, Df, was close to the value of Dgb, although the value of Df was a little higher than that of Dgb in the specimens of the lower Dgb values. The fracture appearance changed from a brittle grain-boundary fracture to a ductile one with increasing values of Dgb and Df. The crack-growth rate is the surface-notched specimens decreased with increasing value of Dgb. The threshold stress intensity factor for crack growth was higher in the specimens with the higher Dgb values. This revised version was published online in November 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Intercrystalline cracking,grain-boundary sliding,and delayed elasticity at high temperatures

The hypothesis of an interrelation between grain-boundary sliding and delayed elasticity in polycrystalline materials at high homologous temperatures is used to investigate the conditions conducive to microcracking. It is known that a material may exhibit cracking activity on attaining a critical delayed-elastic strain corresponding to a critical grainboundary sliding displacement. Experimental data on ice at temperatures >0.9T _m are used to verify this concept. The new criterion is then extended to develop simple, selfconsistent equations describing the interdependence of stress, strain, time, temperature, and grain size in predicting the onset of structural degradation due to microcracking and hence possible failure by fracture or rupture. The merit of the theory lies in its ability to forecast explicitly a large number of commonly observed high-temperature phenomena, including superplasticity, brittle-ductile transition, and the stress and temperature dependence of the apparent activation energy for fracture. One derivation makes it clear that cracking occurs when a critical stress depending only on temperature (and independent of grain size) is exceeded. The near constancy of fracture strain in the quasi brittle range can also be predicted     

Elastic properties of two titanium alloys at low temperatures

Sound velocities and elastic constants were determined semi-continuously for two annealed polycrystalline titanium alloys between 4 and 300 K. Results are given for: longitudinal sound velocity, transverse sound velocity. Young's modulus, shear modulus, bulk modulus, Poisson's ratio, and elastic Debye temperature. A pulse-superposition technique was used.     

Low-temperature elastic properties of four wrought and annealed aluminium alloys

The elastic properties of four annealed polycrystalline commercial aluminium alloys were studied between 4 and 300 K using a pulse-superposition method. Results are given for longitudinal sound velocity, transverse sound velocity, Young's modulus, shear modulus, bulk modulus (reciprocal compressibility), Poisson's ratio, and elastic Debye temperature. The elastic stiffnesses of the alloys increase 4 to 13% on cooling from room temperature to liquid helium temperature. The elastic constant-temperature curves exhibit regular behaviour.     

Plastic deformation and fatigue properties of ternary CoTi based alloys containing Al at room and high temperatures

Mechanical and fatigue properties of ternary CoTi based single crystals containing 2% and 5% Al was investigated. It was shown that in these two alloys the addition of Al improve the strength of CoTi at all tested temperatures, but by increasing Al content the peak temperature shifted to lower temperature and the effect of anomalous strengthening was weakened. The number of cycles to failure in fatigue test for CoTi (2 at.% Al) single crystals showed a minimum, at high temperatures. This phenomenon seems to be due to the activation of new slip systems. Also by increasing Al, the fatigue limit at constant temperature can be changed. It was shown that Al addition is not effective in improving fatigue life at low temperatures but it can improve it at high temperatures.     

Thermophysical properties of cobalt at high temperatures

Measured values of the thermal conductivity, total hemispherical and spectral (λ=0.65 μ) emittances, resistivity, and coefficient of linear expansion of cobalt are presented.     

Thermophysical properties of lanthanides at high temperatures

Results of measurements of heat capacity, thermal diffusivity, and thermal conductivity of yttrium, gadolinium, holmium, and lutecium in the temperature range 1100–2100°K are presented. The behavior of the thermophysical properties with phase transitions is discussed.Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp. 1010–1012, December.     

Microstructure and mechanical properties of CxHf0.25NbTaW0.5 refractory high-entropy alloys at room and high temperatures

The microstructure and mechanical properties of as-cast and isothermally annealed CxHf0.25NbTaW0.5(x=0,0.05,0.15,0.25)refractory high-entropy alloys(RHEAs)were ...     

Integral emittance of alloys of the iron-aluminum system at high temperatures

Experimental data on the integral emittance coefficients of alloys of the iron-aluminum system in the temperature range from 80 to 1700°C are given.Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 47, No. 5, pp. 823–824, November, 1984.     

Fe-Cr合金钢高温性能研究

本文试验研制了四种Fe-Cr合金材料,其在900 ℃时的热膨胀率在10～11×10-3范围内,其中FeCr-4合金的热膨胀率为10.27×10-3,与钇稳定氧化锆(YSZ)相比,热膨胀率逐渐接近;与传统合金材料相比,热膨胀率之差均有了明显下降,因而降低了界面热应力,有效改善层间的热失配现象.随着温度的升高,各合金试样的电阻率呈平缓增大的趋势.在850℃时,四种合金试样的电阻率在0.95～1.17×10-3 Ω·cm范围内,其中Fe-Cr-4试样的电阻率较低,为1.17×10-3 Ω·cm,满足用作SOFC连接体材料导电性能的要求.Fe-Cr -1、4两种合金试样的抗氧化性能较好,随着氧化时间的延长,试样表面形成稳定的3Cr2 O3 Fe2 O3氧化层,氧化增重逐渐趋于稳定.累计氧化455 h后,Fe-Cr-1、4两种试样对应的氧化增重在0.0002 g/g左右;而Fe-Cr-2、3两种试样仍在0.0004 g/g以上.     

Grain boundary sliding in nanomaterials at elevated temperatures

The unique deformation behavior of nanocrystalline materials is considered to be caused by suppression of conventional lattice dislocation slip (which dominates in coarse-grained materials) and effective action of alternative deformation mechanisms occurring through motion of grain boundary defects. A significant role of grain boundary sliding in deformation processes in nanocrystalline materials was shown in models and was revealed experimentally.     

Deformation of PC/ABS alloys at elevated temperatures and high strain rates

The objective of this paper is to experimentally study the deformation behavior of the alloys of polycarbonate (PC) and acrylonitrile–butadiene–styrene (ABS) at elevated temperatures and high strain rates. Four kinds of PC/ABS alloys with the ratio of PC to ABS being 80:20, 60:40, 50:50 and 40:60 and three different strain rates 8.0 × 10² s⁻¹, 2.7 × 10³ s⁻¹ and 1.0 × 10⁴ s⁻¹ are considered. The Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB) experiments are carried out at 293 K and 343 K, respectively. The curves of engineering stress and engineering strain and true stress and true strain are obtained for the PC/ABS alloys at different temperatures and different strain rates, respectively. The effects of temperature, strain rate and the fraction of ABS on the deformation behavior of PC/ABS alloys are discussed in details, and then a temperature and strain rate-dependent phenomenological constitutive model for PC/ABS alloys is developed.