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On Roesler and Arzt's new model of creep in dispersion strengthened alloys

Journal Article · · Acta Metallurgica et Materialia; (United States)
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  1. Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physical Metallurgy, Brno (Czechoslovakia)

The model of creep in dispersion (noncoherent particle) strengthened alloys assuming thermally activated detachment of dislocations from particles to be the rate controlling process, recently presented by Roesler and Arzt (1990), is correlated with some available creep and structure data for aluminum alloys strengthened by Al4C3 and Al2O3 particles. It is shown that though the model requires applied stress dependent apparent activation energy of creep, the stress dependence of creep rate can be satisfactorily accounted for even when this activation energy is stress independent, admitting a strong stress dependence of the preexponential structure factor, i.e., of the mobile dislocation density. On the other hand, the model is not able to account for the temperature dependence of creep rate if it is significantly stronger than that of the coefficient of lattice diffusion, as is usually the case with alloys strengthened by noncoherent particles in which the attractive dislocation/particle interaction can be expected. 14 refs.

OSTI ID:
7165034
Journal Information:
Acta Metallurgica et Materialia; (United States), Journal Name: Acta Metallurgica et Materialia; (United States) Vol. 40:8; ISSN 0956-7151; ISSN AMATEB
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English