Anneal hardening has been one of the approaches to improve mechanical properties of solid solution alloys with the face-centered cubic(FCC) structure,whereby a considerable strengthening can be attained by annealing o...Anneal hardening has been one of the approaches to improve mechanical properties of solid solution alloys with the face-centered cubic(FCC) structure,whereby a considerable strengthening can be attained by annealing of cold-worked alloys below the recrystallization temperature(T_(rx)).Microscopically,this hardening effect has been ascribed to several mechanisms,i.e.solute segregation to defects(dislocation and stacking fault) and short-range chemical ordering,etc.However,none of these mechanisms can well explain the anneal hardening recently observed in phase-pure and coarse-grained FCC-structured high-entropy alloys(HEAs).Here we report the observations,using high-resolution electron channeling contrast imaging and transmission electron microscopy,of profuse and stable dislocation substructures in a cold-rolled CoCrFeMnNi HEA subject to an annealing below T_(rx).The dislocation substructures are observed to be thermally stable up to T_(rx),which could arise from the chemical complexity of the high-entropy system where certain elemental diffusion retardation occurs.The microstructure feature is markedly different from that of conventional dilute solid solution alloys,in which dislocation substructures gradually vanish by recovery during annealing,leading to a strength drop.Furthermore,dilute addition of 2 at.% Al leads to a reduction in both microhardness and yield strength of the cold-rolled and subsequently annealed(≤500℃) HEA.This Al induced softening effect,could be associated with the anisotropic formation of dislocation substructure,resulting from enhanced dislocation planar slip due to glide plane softening effect.These findings suggest that the strength of HEAs can be tailored through the anneal hardening effect from dislocation substructure strengthening.展开更多
A Ti 47Al 2Cr 2Nb alloy was made by powder extrusion methods. By varying extrusion temperature, different microstructures were produced. At an extrusion temperature of 1 400 ℃ (above α transus), a uniform, fully lam...A Ti 47Al 2Cr 2Nb alloy was made by powder extrusion methods. By varying extrusion temperature, different microstructures were produced. At an extrusion temperature of 1 400 ℃ (above α transus), a uniform, fully lamellar structure was observed. In contrast, when powders were extruded at 1 150 ℃, an inhomogeneous microstructure consisting of γ,α 2 and metastable β phases was obtained. It was demonstrated that, while alloy extruded at 1 400 ℃ exhibited an excellent creep resistance, alloy with the same composition extruded at 1 150 ℃ exhibited superplasticity. The good creep resistance was resulted from the presence of fine lamellae which restrict dislocation slip within γ grains. These fine lamellae also promote the nucleation of deformation twins which impede dislocation glide along the interfaces ( γ/γ and γ/α 2) and, thus, reduces creep rate. In the case of low temperature extrusion, an elongation value of over 300% was obtained at a strain rate of 2×10 -5 s -1 and at a temperature as low as 800 ℃, which is close to the ductile to brittle transition temperature. This is in contrast to the prior major observations of superplastic behaviors in TiAl in which typical temperatures of 1 000 ℃ have usually been required for superplasticity. It was proposed that the occurrence of superplasticity at 800 ℃ is caused by the presence of a B2 phase which, during superplastic deformation (grain boundary sliding), accommodates sliding strains to reduce the propensity for cavitation at grain triple junctions and, thus, delays the fracture process.展开更多
The development of ultrastrong maraging stainless steels(MSSs)is always in high demand.However,traditional high-strength MSSs generally exhibit early plastic instability with a low uniform strain since the precipitate...The development of ultrastrong maraging stainless steels(MSSs)is always in high demand.However,traditional high-strength MSSs generally exhibit early plastic instability with a low uniform strain since the precipitated nanoparticles are non-coherent with the body-centered-cubic(BCC)lath martensitic matrix.Here,we design a novel ultrahigh strength MSS(Fe-5.30 Cr-13.47 Ni-3.10 Al-1.22 Mo-0.50 W-0.23 Nb-0.03 C-0.005 B,wt.%)using a cluster formula approach.A fabulous microstructure consisting of a uniform distribution of high-density coherent B2-Ni Al nanoprecipitates(3-5 nm)in BCC martensitic matrix was successfully obtained.This alloy has not only an exceedingly high ultimate tensile strength of 2.0 GPa,but also a decent uniform elongation of 4.2%-5.1%,which is almost triple of the value observed in existing MSSs.We present an in-depth discussion on the origins of ultrahigh strength and uniform plastic strain in the new alloy to validate our design strategy and further offer a new pathway to exploit highperformance MSSs.展开更多
Creep experiments have been conducted on five powder metallurgy TiAl alloys with fine grains (65～80 μm), fine lamellar spacings (0.1～0.16 μm), and different compositions [Ti 47Al(+Cr, Nb, Ta, W, Si)] at temperatur...Creep experiments have been conducted on five powder metallurgy TiAl alloys with fine grains (65～80 μm), fine lamellar spacings (0.1～0.16 μm), and different compositions [Ti 47Al(+Cr, Nb, Ta, W, Si)] at temperatures of 760 ℃ and 815 ℃ and stresses from 35 to 723 MPa. Results show that at a given lamellar spacing 1% Nb(mole fraction) with 1% Ta and replacing 0.2% Ta with 0.2% W induced little effect, but addition of 0.3% Si decreased the creep resistance by a factor of 3～4 under otherwise identical conditions. These different effects of different alloying elements are interpreted in terms of the interaction of alloy segregants with misfit and/or misorientaion dislocations at the lamellar interface. That is, the interaction retards or facilitates the climb of interfacial dislocations, which is rate controlling during creep, depending on the size of the segregants relative to the host atoms.展开更多
Shaped Mg alloy foams with closed-cell structure are highly interested for a great potential to be utilized in the fields where weight reduction is urgently required.A powder metallurgical method,namely gas release re...Shaped Mg alloy foams with closed-cell structure are highly interested for a great potential to be utilized in the fields where weight reduction is urgently required.A powder metallurgical method,namely gas release reaction powder metallurgy route to fabricate Mg-X(X=Al,Zn or Cu)alloy foams,was summarized.The principles on shaped Mg-X foams fabrication via the route were proposed.In addition,the effects of alloying elements,sintering treatment and foaming temperatures on fabrication of shaped Mg-X alloy foams were investigated experimentally.The results show that the key to ensure a successful foaming of Mg-X alloy foams is to add alloying metals alloyed with Mg to form lower melting(<600℃)intermetallic compounds by the initial sintering treatment.The foaming mechanism of Mg-X alloy foams also has been clarified,that is,the low-melting-point Mg-based intermetallic compounds melt first,and then reactions between the melt and CaCO_(3),a foaming agent,release CO gas to make the precursor foamed and finally shaped Mg-X alloy foam with a promising cellular structure is prepared.This route has been verified by successful fabrication on shaped Mg-Al,Mg-Zn and Mg-Cu foams with cellular structure.展开更多
Upon deforming a metallic glass at low temperatures, shear tends to localize and this leads to a brittle behavior. However, in the high temperature, and particularly in the supercooled liquid region, homogeneous defor...Upon deforming a metallic glass at low temperatures, shear tends to localize and this leads to a brittle behavior. However, in the high temperature, and particularly in the supercooled liquid region, homogeneous deformation begins to take place. A bulk amorphous Zr 10Al 5Ti 17.9Cu 14.6Ni alloy was observed to exhibit the Newtonian behavior at low strain rates but becomes non Newtonian at high strain rates in the supercooled liquid region. Structures of the amorphous material, both before and after deformation, were examined using X ray diffraction and high resolution electron microscopy. Results showed the presence of nanocrystallites in the deformed samples. Thus, the non Newtonian behavior is attributable to the concurrent crystallization of the amorphous structure during deformation. A mechanistic model is presented to interpret the observed non Newtonian result. A phenomenological approach is also used to develop the deformation map for bulk metallic glasses in the supercooled liquid region.展开更多
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52001120)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 531118010450)+10 种基金the Hundred Talent Program of Hunan Provincethe State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy,Central South University,Changshathe State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metals and Materials(No. 2021-Z09)University of Science&Technology Beijing,Chinasupported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51801060)supported by the Swedish Research Councilsupported by the National Science Foundation under Contract (No. DMR-1408722)sponsored by the Whiting School of EngineeringJohns Hopkins Universityfunded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2016YFB0300801)the National NaturalScience Foundation of China (Nos. 51831004, 11427806, 51671082,51471067)。
文摘Anneal hardening has been one of the approaches to improve mechanical properties of solid solution alloys with the face-centered cubic(FCC) structure,whereby a considerable strengthening can be attained by annealing of cold-worked alloys below the recrystallization temperature(T_(rx)).Microscopically,this hardening effect has been ascribed to several mechanisms,i.e.solute segregation to defects(dislocation and stacking fault) and short-range chemical ordering,etc.However,none of these mechanisms can well explain the anneal hardening recently observed in phase-pure and coarse-grained FCC-structured high-entropy alloys(HEAs).Here we report the observations,using high-resolution electron channeling contrast imaging and transmission electron microscopy,of profuse and stable dislocation substructures in a cold-rolled CoCrFeMnNi HEA subject to an annealing below T_(rx).The dislocation substructures are observed to be thermally stable up to T_(rx),which could arise from the chemical complexity of the high-entropy system where certain elemental diffusion retardation occurs.The microstructure feature is markedly different from that of conventional dilute solid solution alloys,in which dislocation substructures gradually vanish by recovery during annealing,leading to a strength drop.Furthermore,dilute addition of 2 at.% Al leads to a reduction in both microhardness and yield strength of the cold-rolled and subsequently annealed(≤500℃) HEA.This Al induced softening effect,could be associated with the anisotropic formation of dislocation substructure,resulting from enhanced dislocation planar slip due to glide plane softening effect.These findings suggest that the strength of HEAs can be tailored through the anneal hardening effect from dislocation substructure strengthening.
文摘A Ti 47Al 2Cr 2Nb alloy was made by powder extrusion methods. By varying extrusion temperature, different microstructures were produced. At an extrusion temperature of 1 400 ℃ (above α transus), a uniform, fully lamellar structure was observed. In contrast, when powders were extruded at 1 150 ℃, an inhomogeneous microstructure consisting of γ,α 2 and metastable β phases was obtained. It was demonstrated that, while alloy extruded at 1 400 ℃ exhibited an excellent creep resistance, alloy with the same composition extruded at 1 150 ℃ exhibited superplasticity. The good creep resistance was resulted from the presence of fine lamellae which restrict dislocation slip within γ grains. These fine lamellae also promote the nucleation of deformation twins which impede dislocation glide along the interfaces ( γ/γ and γ/α 2) and, thus, reduces creep rate. In the case of low temperature extrusion, an elongation value of over 300% was obtained at a strain rate of 2×10 -5 s -1 and at a temperature as low as 800 ℃, which is close to the ductile to brittle transition temperature. This is in contrast to the prior major observations of superplastic behaviors in TiAl in which typical temperatures of 1 000 ℃ have usually been required for superplasticity. It was proposed that the occurrence of superplasticity at 800 ℃ is caused by the presence of a B2 phase which, during superplastic deformation (grain boundary sliding), accommodates sliding strains to reduce the propensity for cavitation at grain triple junctions and, thus, delays the fracture process.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant numbers 91860108,U1867201]Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province of China[grant number 2019-KF-05-01]the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities[grant number DUT19LAB01]。
文摘The development of ultrastrong maraging stainless steels(MSSs)is always in high demand.However,traditional high-strength MSSs generally exhibit early plastic instability with a low uniform strain since the precipitated nanoparticles are non-coherent with the body-centered-cubic(BCC)lath martensitic matrix.Here,we design a novel ultrahigh strength MSS(Fe-5.30 Cr-13.47 Ni-3.10 Al-1.22 Mo-0.50 W-0.23 Nb-0.03 C-0.005 B,wt.%)using a cluster formula approach.A fabulous microstructure consisting of a uniform distribution of high-density coherent B2-Ni Al nanoprecipitates(3-5 nm)in BCC martensitic matrix was successfully obtained.This alloy has not only an exceedingly high ultimate tensile strength of 2.0 GPa,but also a decent uniform elongation of 4.2%-5.1%,which is almost triple of the value observed in existing MSSs.We present an in-depth discussion on the origins of ultrahigh strength and uniform plastic strain in the new alloy to validate our design strategy and further offer a new pathway to exploit highperformance MSSs.
文摘Creep experiments have been conducted on five powder metallurgy TiAl alloys with fine grains (65～80 μm), fine lamellar spacings (0.1～0.16 μm), and different compositions [Ti 47Al(+Cr, Nb, Ta, W, Si)] at temperatures of 760 ℃ and 815 ℃ and stresses from 35 to 723 MPa. Results show that at a given lamellar spacing 1% Nb(mole fraction) with 1% Ta and replacing 0.2% Ta with 0.2% W induced little effect, but addition of 0.3% Si decreased the creep resistance by a factor of 3～4 under otherwise identical conditions. These different effects of different alloying elements are interpreted in terms of the interaction of alloy segregants with misfit and/or misorientaion dislocations at the lamellar interface. That is, the interaction retards or facilitates the climb of interfacial dislocations, which is rate controlling during creep, depending on the size of the segregants relative to the host atoms.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51971017)Science Funds for Creative Research Groups of China(51921001)+2 种基金Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University of China(IRT_14R05)Projects of SKLAMM-USTB(2018Z-19)the financial support from the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(No.FRF-TP-18-004C1).
文摘Shaped Mg alloy foams with closed-cell structure are highly interested for a great potential to be utilized in the fields where weight reduction is urgently required.A powder metallurgical method,namely gas release reaction powder metallurgy route to fabricate Mg-X(X=Al,Zn or Cu)alloy foams,was summarized.The principles on shaped Mg-X foams fabrication via the route were proposed.In addition,the effects of alloying elements,sintering treatment and foaming temperatures on fabrication of shaped Mg-X alloy foams were investigated experimentally.The results show that the key to ensure a successful foaming of Mg-X alloy foams is to add alloying metals alloyed with Mg to form lower melting(<600℃)intermetallic compounds by the initial sintering treatment.The foaming mechanism of Mg-X alloy foams also has been clarified,that is,the low-melting-point Mg-based intermetallic compounds melt first,and then reactions between the melt and CaCO_(3),a foaming agent,release CO gas to make the precursor foamed and finally shaped Mg-X alloy foam with a promising cellular structure is prepared.This route has been verified by successful fabrication on shaped Mg-Al,Mg-Zn and Mg-Cu foams with cellular structure.
文摘Upon deforming a metallic glass at low temperatures, shear tends to localize and this leads to a brittle behavior. However, in the high temperature, and particularly in the supercooled liquid region, homogeneous deformation begins to take place. A bulk amorphous Zr 10Al 5Ti 17.9Cu 14.6Ni alloy was observed to exhibit the Newtonian behavior at low strain rates but becomes non Newtonian at high strain rates in the supercooled liquid region. Structures of the amorphous material, both before and after deformation, were examined using X ray diffraction and high resolution electron microscopy. Results showed the presence of nanocrystallites in the deformed samples. Thus, the non Newtonian behavior is attributable to the concurrent crystallization of the amorphous structure during deformation. A mechanistic model is presented to interpret the observed non Newtonian result. A phenomenological approach is also used to develop the deformation map for bulk metallic glasses in the supercooled liquid region.
