Title | Designing nickel base alloys for microstructural stability through low γ-γ′ interfacial energy and lattice misfit |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2018 |
Authors | Meher S., Carroll M.C, Pollock T.M, Carroll L.J |
Journal | Materials and Design |
Volume | 140 |
Pagination | 249–256 |
ISSN | 18734197 |
Keywords | Atom probe tomography, Interfacial energy, Precipitate coarsening, γ-γ′ nickel-base alloy |
Abstract | An extended stability alloy design strategy for multicomponent γ-γ′ nickel-base alloys with near-zero lattice misfit and as low as possible interfacial energy was investigated by isothermal annealing of two experimental alloys at 900 °C for times up to 256 h. The coarsening behavior of the spherical γ′ precipitates and the phase compositions determined by atom probe tomography were utilized to exploit a modified Lifshitz-Slyozov-Wagner relationship to estimate the interfacial energies. The estimated interfacial energies are much lower than predicted by a CALPHAD-based software as well as those typically reported for multicomponent γ-γ′ nickel alloys. Despite successfully minimizing the interfacial energy and γ-γ′ lattice misfit, these factors alone were not sufficient to impart high temperature extended stability through reduced coarsening kinetics. |
URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2017.11.065 |
DOI | 10.1016/j.matdes.2017.11.065 |