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Brittle fracture and grain boundary chemistry of microalloyed NiAl

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

E. P. George  and
C. T. Liu
E. P. George
Affiliation:
Metals and Ceramics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6093
C. T. Liu
Affiliation:
Metals and Ceramics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6093
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Abstract

The room-temperature tensile properties, fracture mode, and grain boundary chemistry of undoped stoichiometric NiAl, as well as NiAl doped with boron, carbon, and beryllium, have been investigated, Pure, stoichiometric NiAl fractures with limited tensile ductility in a predominantly intergranular manner. Auger analyses revealed that the grain boundaries in NiAl are extremely clean and free of any segregated impurities, indicating that they are intrinsically brittle. Boron, when added to stoichiometric NiAl at a bulk level of 300 wt. ppm, segregates to the grain boundaries and suppresses intergranular fracture. However, there is no attendant improvement in tensile ductility because boron is an extremely potent solid solution strengthener in NiAl, more than doubling its yield strength. As a result, any potential benefit of improving grain boundary strength is more than offset by the increase in yield strength. Unlike boron, both carbon (300 ppm) and beryllium (500 ppm) are ineffective in suppressing intergranular fracture in NiAl, and Auger analyses of the C-doped alloy revealed that carbon did not affect the fracture mode because it did not segregate to the grain boundaries. Although neither beryllium nor carbon suppressed grain boundary fracture, their effects on the tensile ductility of NiAl were quite different: the ductility of the Be-doped alloy was higher than that of the B-doped alloy because beryllium, unlike boron, has a rather modest strengthening effect in NiAl, whereas the C-doped alloy was brittle like the B-doped alloy, because carbon is a potent solid solution strengthener, just like boron. These observations were rationalized by considering a hard-sphere model for interstitial and substitutional sites in NiAl. It was concluded that boron and carbon occupy interstitial sites, whereas beryllium dissolves substitutionally. In all the alloys that were investigated, the Ni and Al contents of the grain boundaries were not significantly different from the bulk levels, and no evidence was found for B–Ni cosegregation.

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , April 1990 , pp. 754 - 762
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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