Creep and failure at metal-oxide interfaces

Dillon, Shen J.; Schoell, Ryan M.; Wright, Andrew; Luo, Jian; Rabkin, Eugen; Hattar, Khalid

doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2024.120563

Title: Creep and failure at metal-oxide interfaces

Journal Article · 12 November 2024 · Acta Materialia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2024.120563 · OSTI ID:2477110

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Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (Israel)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)

Small-scale bicrystal creep experiments were performed on contacts formed via in situ high-temperature diffusion bonding of metal-oxide interfaces including Ag-ZrO₂, Pd-ZrO₂, Pt-ZrO₂, and Ag-high entropy oxide. This work characterizes deformation and failure at metal-oxide interfaces during mechanical loading. Interfacial sliding can be activated easily, while tensile interfacial creep was not observed at any condition of stress or temperature measured. Plastic strain, instead, localizes within the metal under tensile loading. A variety of mechanisms for plastic strain occur in the metal including lattice dislocation-mediated plasticity, twinning, low-angle grain boundary formation, and low-angle grain boundary creep. Surface and low-angle grain boundary diffusion occur under conditions where no metal-oxide tensile creep is observed, highlighting the significant differences in their interfacial mechanical response. High-temperature interfacial failure occurs when the mean curvature at the contact neck is approximately zero and the applied stresses comparable to brittle fracture stresses. The brittle fracture stresses were measured to be σ_ƒ = 180 ± 90 MPa at the Ag-ZrO₂ interface at 225 °C, σ_ƒ = 460 ± 160 MPa at the Pd-ZrO₂ interface at 680 °C, and σ_ƒ = 640 ± 440 MPa at the Pt-ZrO₂ interface at 1010 °C.

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Research Organization:: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division (MSE)

Grant/Contract Number:: NA0003525; SC0023447

OSTI ID:: 2477110

Journal Information:: Acta Materialia, Journal Name: Acta Materialia Vol. 283; ISSN 1359-6454

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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