High-Temperature Static Coarsening of Gamma-Prime Precipitates in NiAlCr-X Single Crystals (Postprint)

Abstract

The high-temperature coarsening behavior of gamma precipitates in a series of NiAlCr, NiAlCrTi, NiAlCrW, and NiAlCrTa single-crystal alloys was determined at temperatures between 1158 K 885C and 1473 K 1200C. For this purpose, samples were supersolvus solution treated, water quenched, and then subsolvus aged for times between 0.067 and 96 h. All of the measurements revealed an r3 dependence of the average precipitate radius on time, thus suggesting bulk-diffusion control of the coarsening process. Coarsening kinetics were fastest for NiCrAl and slowest for NiCrAlTa. The observations were interpreted in terms of the classical Lifshitz-Slyosov-Wagner LSW theory modified to account for the finite volume fraction of particles the composition of the precipitates, and the multicomponent nature of the alloys. By this means, an effective diffusivity for the coarsening process was determined and found to lie between 0.6 and 1.5 times that for the impurity diffusivity of chromium in nickel.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 27, 2019
Accession Number
AD1068821

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  • A. R. Gerlt
  • E.J. Payton
  • Fengwangdong Zhang
  • J. S. Tiley
  • N. C. Levkulich
  • R V Miner
  • R. A. Mackay
  • S. L. Semiatin
  • T. P. Gabb

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Chromium
  • Crystals
  • Diffusion
  • Diffusivity
  • Electron Microscopy
  • Elements
  • High Temperature
  • Materials
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Metals
  • Particle Size
  • Particles
  • Single Crystals
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

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