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Grain Boundary and Cavity Surface Segregation in Crept Ni3Al + 0.2at% B AND Ni3 (AI,Hf) + 0.2at% B

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Patrick H. Au-Yeung ,
John T. Lukowski  and
Calvin L White
Patrick H. Au-Yeung
Affiliation:
Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931
John T. Lukowski
Affiliation:
Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931
Calvin L White
Affiliation:
Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931
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Abstract

Creep strengths and ductilities of boron-doped nickel aluminides are significantly improved by small additions of hafnium. Since creep failure in these alloys proceeds by growth and coalescence of grain boundary cavities, effects of Hf additions on the compositions of grain boundaries and creep cavity surfaces were examined using Auger electron spectroscopy (AES). In order to facilitate intergranular fracture in the AES analysis chamber, gage sections from creep specimens were hydrogen charged and copper plated. Grain boundaries in crept specimens were not flat, and the grains did not exhibit a normal polyhedral appearance. The overall levels of boron detected on the fracture surfaces of the creep specimens were significantly higher than those from uncrept specimens. Additionally, boron was found to segregate more strongly to the grain boundaries while higher concentrations of residual sulfur and phosphorus were detected on the cavity surfaces in both alloys. These results are discussed in terms of the effects of impurity segregation on high temperature grain boundary cavitation.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 133: Symposium H – High-Temperature Ordered Intermetallic Alloys III , 1988 , 517
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1989

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