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Ductility and Fracture Behavior of Single Crystalline Ni3Al with Boron Additions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

F. E. Heredia  and
D. P. Pope
F. E. Heredia
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 3231 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104.
D. P. Pope
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 3231 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104.
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Abstract

Low and high temperature tensile tests were performed on single crystals of pure Ni3Al and Ni3Al+B in order to determine the effect of B additions on the ductility and fracture behavior. Tests were carried out in air at a constant strain rate of 1.3 × 10−3 s−1. The orientations tested were [001] for which the yield stress in tension is always greater than in compression, and those for which the tension/compression asymmetry is zero ([T=C]) for each particular composition. At room temperature, the results show a positive effect of B additions on both the fracture stress and on the ductility. The ductility at 800K appears to decrease monotonically with B additions. The largest ductilities are found for [T=C] at room temperature where an improvement of about 26% (resolved strain) for an addition of 0.2 at% B was obtained. However, the most dramatic increase in ductility occurs for the [001] oriented samples at room temperature where a 55% improvement was measured over that of pure Ni3Al. Fracture surfaces show a combination of massive slip, some cleavage, and heavily dimpled areas. These observations show that B additions not only increase the ductility of polycrystalline Ni3Al, as has been previously observed by many investigators, but also that of the already-ductile single crystalline material, indicating that a “bulk effect” should be added to the grain boundary strengthening effect of B when explaining the improvement in ductility of polycrystalline Ni3Al due to B additions.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 133: Symposium H – High-Temperature Ordered Intermetallic Alloys III , 1988 , 287
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1989

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