Size dependence of incipient dislocation plasticity in Ni3Al

Molecular dynamics simulations are carried out to study the incipient dislocation plasticity in Ni3Al. Dislocation nucleation is found to occur preferentially at energetic atomic clusters with larger-than-average relative displacements. From the simulated distribution of the atomic relative displacements, a scaling model is proposed to predict the size dependence of the incipient plasticity condition in real-sized specimens.     

Nature of the temperature dependence of plasticity in the polycrystalline intermetallic compound Ni3Al

The effect of temperature on the plasticity, the type of failure, and the fractions of brittle intercrystallite and viscous transcrystallite failure of the intermetallic compound Ni-24 at. % Al have been studied with boron and without boron. A method is proposed for determining the cohesive strength of the grain boundaries by using the parameters of the flow curve and taking account of the local plastic deformation at the tip of the crack. It is shown that the cohesive strength of the grain boundaries is quite high in Ni₃Al and it is not the cause of the low-temperature embrittlement. The temperature dependence of the plasticity in the Ni-25 at. % Al alloy with boron and without boron in the region of the anomalous temperature dependence of the flow limit is determined by the change in the deformational hardening coefficient and at higher temperatures by a lowering of the cohesive strength of the grain boundaries.V. D. Kuznetsov Siberian Physicotechnical Institute, Tomsk University. Institute for Strength and Materials Science, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 11, pp. 80–89, November, 1994.     

A crystal plasticity finite element model for flow stress anomalies in Ni3Al single crystals

This paper presents a dislocation density-based non-Schmid constitutive model to address the anomalous thermo-mechanical behaviour of the L1₂ intermetallic single-crystal Ni₃Al. Ni₃Al is used as a strengthening precipitate (γ′ phase) in Ni-based superalloys. Addressing such anomalous behaviour by accounting for temperature-dependent flow stress and hardening evolution, as well as orientation-dependent tension–compression asymmetry, is necessary for modelling superalloys across a range of temperatures. While hardening in cube-slip systems results from statistically stored dislocations (SSDs), hardening in octahedral slip systems is due to both SSDs and cross-slip dislocations (CSDs). The constitutive model incorporates hardening evolution due to SSDs and CSDs. Experimental data for Ni₃Al-type single crystals, available in the literature, are used to calibrate material parameters. Subsequently, results of crystal plasticity FEM simulations are compared with experimental data for several orientations under constant strain rate and creep loading conditions for a wide range of temperatures. The model is able to correctly predict the response of L1₂ intermetallic single crystals including features of anomalous flow stress and non-Schmid yield behaviour.     

耐蚀合金Al3Ni和Ni3Al液态冷凝过程的比较研究

采用F S多体势对液态合金Al3Ni和Ni3Al在不同冷却速度下的微观结构及其转变机制进行了分子动力学模拟 ,得到了不同冷速下各温度的双体分布函数 ;采用HA键型指数法对其结构进行了分析 ,结果表明 :Al3Ni在两种冷速下均以非晶的形式出现 ,只是慢冷时体系的有序度略有升高 ;而Ni3Al的结构及能量转变受冷速影响较大 ,快冷时形成非晶 ,而慢冷时出现明显结晶 ;同样冷速下Al含量较少的Ni3Al体系的有序度高 ,更易形成晶体 ,晶体的形成过程中有能量突变 .     

Oxidation of Ni3Al–Ni3Nb alloys

Conclusions The Ni₃Al–Ni₃Nb alloys are oxidized as a result of the diffusion of oxygen ions toward the interface between the alloy and the oxidation product. This diffusion produces a relatively thick inner layer of complex composition; in addition, diffusion of nickel ions toward the interface between the oxidation product and the gas results in the formation of a thin outer layer of NiO. At any temperature, NiO in the inner oxide is reduced to Ni by niobium atoms. During the initial stages of the oxidation, the reduction occurs at the oxide-alloy inter face; during the later stages, it occurs at the interface between the oxide and the suboxide layer. Protective double oxides of NiO · Nb₂O₅ (t = 700–725 °) and NiO · Al₂O₃ (t = 800–850 °) form in the oxidation product. An -Nb₂O₅ conversion occurs at 825–900 ° and considerably reduces the oxidizability of the alloys. The -Nb₂O₅ lattice probably contains fewer oxygen vacancies than the -Nb₂O₅ lattice and thus has better protective properties.Translated from Izvestiya VUZ. Fizika, No. 12, pp. 75–83, December, 1969.     

Effect of chromium on structure,strength, and plasticity of high-temperature intermetallide Ni3Al

The effect of chromium on structure, strength characteristics, plasticity, and failure principles in the polycrystalline intermetallide Ni₃Al, produced by self-propagating high-temperature synthesis, is studied over the temperature range 290–1270 K. It is shown that the effect of chromium depends upon which element (nickel or aluminum) it is introduced in place of, although failure of alloys with various chromium contents at all deformation temperatures remains intercrystallite in nature.V. D. Kuznetsov Siberian Physicotechnical Institute at Tomsk State University. Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 6, pp. 30–36, June, 1993.     

High-temperature strength of Ni3Al - Ni3Nb alloys

Conclusions The concentration dependences have been found for the bending and compression strength of Ni₃Al–Ni₃Nb alloys in the temperature range 20–1200 °, and the corresponding dependence for the tensile strength has been found at room temperature. It has been shown that the alloys with 45 and 90 wt.% Ni₃Nb are the strongest. The concentration dependences of the strength of these alloys have been compared with their physical properties.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshlkh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, Vol. 12, No. 7, pp. 55–59, July, 1969.     

Intermediate temperature creep mechanisms in Ni 3 Al

The intermediate-temperature creep response of single-crystal Ni 3 Al(Ta) has been investigated along both [ ] and [001] axial orientations. The effect of the existing deformation structure (i.e. pre-straining) on the [ ] creep response was reported. The creep responses of virgin specimens and specimens prestrained at room temperature (RT) and 520°C are compared. In order to compare the dislocation structures prior to creep, the microstructure of specimens which had been deformed at a constant strain rate at RT and 520°C, but not subjected to creep, was also examined. Creep curves show that the temperature of pre-strain influences the subsequent creep properties. The primary creep response, like the yielding response, appears to be controlled by the kink size distribution, while the secondary creep response is thought to be controlled by the kink separation (or the length of the Kear-Wilsdorf locks). Specimens crept along [ ] display steady state creep properties and rectangularly oriented [ ](010) dislocations, while a virgin specimen crept along [001] displays an increasing secondary creep rate (inverse creep) and d110 ¢{100}-type dislocations. Inverse creep along [001] is thought to be the result of an increasing density of edge kink octahedral sources where there is little resolved shear stress on the cube planes.     

Antisite defects in the Ni3Al phase

Different types of antisite defects are considered, reasons for their occurrence are classified in detail, their relationship with the ordering energy is traced, and some estimates of the ordering energy are made on the basis of the melting temperature.     

Influence of boron on the low-temperature plasticity and fracture mechanism in the high-temperature synthesis of the intermetallic Ni3Al

We have studied the influence of boron on the plasticity and strength of the intermetallic compound Ni₃Al at stoichiometric and nonstoichiometric compositions, grown by self-propagating high temperature synthesis. We have determined the nature of the fracture and the fraction of brittle intercrystallite and viscous transcrystallite fracture. A correlation is found between the low temperature plasticity and the fraction of transcrystallite fracture. It is shown that the addition of boron, up to its solubility increases the cohesive strength of the grain boundaries in melts at the stoichiometric and nonstoichiometric compositions. In a melt with 25 at. % Al it remains about two times smaller than in a melt with 24 at. % Al.V. D. Kuznetsova Physicotechnical Institute at Tomsk University, Siberia. Institute for the Physics of Strength and Materials Fabrication, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 12, pp. 47–53, December, 1993.     

Why Ni3Al is an itinerant ferromagnet but Ni3Ga is not

Ni3Al and Ni3Ga are closely related materials on opposite sides of a ferromagnetic quantum critical point. The Stoner factor of Ni is virtually the same in both compounds and the density of states is larger in Ni3Ga. Thus in Stoner theory it should be more magnetic, and in local-density approximation (LDA) calculations it is. However, experimentally it is a paramagnet, while Ni3Al is an itinerant ferromagnet. We show that critical spin fluctuations are stronger in Ni3Ga, due to weaker q dependence of the susceptibility, and this effect is enough to reverse the trend. The approach combines LDA calculations with Landau theory and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem using the same momentum cutoff for both compounds. The calculations provide evidence for strong, beyond LDA, spin fluctuations associated with the critical point in both materials, but stronger in Ni3Ga than in Ni3Al.     

Elastic and plastic deformation of NaCl and Ni3Al polycrystals during compression in a multi-anvil apparatus

Abstract

The compression behaviour in a multi-anvil apparatus of pure NaCl and of a foil of Ni₃Al embedded in a pressure medium of NaCl has been studied by energy-dispersive X-ray diffraction. At ambient temperature, the pressure and stresses, determined from line positions of NaCl, were constant throughout the sample chamber. Line positions and line widths of NaCl reflections were reversible on pressure release. A saturation of microstrains observed in NaCl at 2 GPa is thus attributed to brittle fracture setting in at uniaxial stresses of around 0.3 GPa. Ni₃Al polycrystals, in contrast, undergo extensive (ductile) plastic deformation above 4 GPa. The compression behaviour of both Ni₃Al and NaCl is identical to that previously determined in a diamond anvil cell. While a multi-anvil device thus has the advantage, compared with a diamond anvil cell, of constant pressure and stress throughout the sample chamber, microstrains in poly-crystalline samples arise in both devices. Samples in a multi-anvil apparatus thus need to be mixed with a pressure medium and to consist of essentially single crystals just as in a diamond anvil cell. Annealing experiments at high pressures confirm that the release of the uniaxial stress component in the pressure medium does not cause a release of microstrains in the embedded sample if the latter has been plastically deformed. Annealing for the purpose of attaining hydrostatic conditions in compression studies thus has to be carried out with care.     

Influence of crystallization process on Ni3Al properties

The paper relates to the preceding works dealing with structural characteristics of Ni₃Al and phases that are generated at crystallization of Al-Ni alloys in application of various melting technologies and thermal processing. Attention was paid to the process of crystallization and cooling at melting and casting, comprehensive chemical analysis in the context of fracture surfaces analyses, grain boundaries and phases with stress to determination of behaviour and occurrence of possible admixtures in Ni₃Al. Such mechanical properties as tensile strength and high-temperature creep were investigated as well. Presented at the 6th Joint Seminar “Development of Materials Science in Research and Education”, Karlštejn, Czech Republic, 17–19 September 1996.     

Deformation-induced dissolution of the intermetallics Ni3Ti and Ni3Al in austenitic steels at cryogenic temperatures

An anomalous deformation-induced dissolution of the intermetallics Ni₃Al and Ni₃Ti in the matrix of austenitic Fe–Ni–Al(Ti) alloys has been revealed in experiment at cryogenic temperatures (down to 77 K) under rolling and high pressure torsion. The observed phenomenon is explained as the result of migration of deformation-stipulated interstitial atoms from a particle into the matrix in the stress field of moving dislocations. With increasing the temperature of deformation, the dissolution is replaced by the deformation-induced precipitation of the intermetallics, which is accelerated due to a sufficient amount of point defects in the matrix, gained as well in the course of deformation at lower temperatures.