Fundamental Understanding of the Intrinsic Ductility in Nickel-Base L1 sub 2 Type Alloys
Abstract
A basic approach for understanding the ductility behavior of intermetallics through studies of mechanical properties and dislocation characteristics of single crystals was applied to a nickel-base Ll2 phase compound. Large single crystals of binary and tantalum-modified Ni3Al alloys with various stoichiometry were produced for tensile testing at 293 to 1144K along four major orientations: (001), (011), (111) and (123). For the binary alloys the tensile ductility generally decreases with temperature for all orientations and reaches a minimum at about 1000K for the nickel-rich (hypostoichiometric) alloy A1240. For a given temperature the ductility decreases in the order (110), (123), (001) and (111) in A1240. The ductility of the stoichiometric and hypostoichiometric binary alloys is lower and shows a more complex temperature and orientation dependence than A1240. Keywords: Nickel aluminide, Single crystals, Ductility.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 30, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA197605
Entities
People
- C. C. Law
- D. W. Shah
- Jian Lin