Role of grain boundary segregation in diffusional creep
The high temperature deformation of polycrystalline materials by the stress directed flow of vacancies is now a well established creep mechanism which operates in two temperature regimes: high temperature, or Nabarro-Herring creep, in which lattice diffusion is rate determining, and low temmperature, or Coble creep, in which grain boundary diffusion predominates. Basic studies have been conducted mostly with pure metals for which there exists in general a good correspondence between predicted and observed behavior. Multicomponent engineering alloys will normally experience, as part of their processing history or service lives, the segregation enrichment of interfaces such as grain boundaries by species present in solid solution. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the experimental information and to explore the manner in which this segregation affects the principal forms of diffusional creep. Cases of retarded Herring-Nabarro creep are analyzed in terms of the efficacy o grain boundaries as sources and sinks for vacancies: strongly bound segregant atoms at grain boundaries affect the mobility of defects and hence control the operation of vacancy sources. Recently, observations have been made on the effect of strongly segregating solutes on grain boundary diffusivity. Such behavior influences Coble creep rates, producing in general a retardation. Here we assess the magnitude of the effect induced by various surface active species on grain boundary diffusivity and consequently on Coble creep; predictions show that in general, small amounts of highly surface active impurities induce a remarkable inhibition of this form of creep.
- Research Organization:
- Division of Materials Applications, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 OLW
- OSTI ID:
- 5531494
- Journal Information:
- Metall. Trans., A; (United States), Journal Name: Metall. Trans., A; (United States) Vol. 14A; ISSN MTTAB
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
CREEP
CRYSTAL DEFECTS
CRYSTAL LATTICES
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE
CRYSTALS
DIFFUSION
ELEMENTS
GRAIN BOUNDARIES
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
METALS
MICROSTRUCTURE
POLYCRYSTALS
SEGREGATION
STRESSES
TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE