scholarly journals Thermal Stability of Nanocrystalline Gradient Inconel 718 Alloy

Crystals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Jie Ding ◽  
Yifan Zhang ◽  
Tongjun Niu ◽  
Zhongxia Shang ◽  
Sichuang Xue ◽  
...  

Gradient structures containing nanograins in the surface layer have been introduced into Inconel 718 (IN718) nickel-based alloy using the surface mechanical grinding treatment technique. The thermal stability of the gradient IN718 alloy was investigated. Annealing studies reveal that nanograins with a grain size smaller than 40 nm exhibited significantly better thermal stability than those with larger grain size. Transmission electron microscopy analyses reveal that the enhanced thermal stability was attributed to the formation of grain boundaries with low energy configurations. This study provides new insight on strategies to improve the thermal stability of nanocrystalline metals.

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 51-56
Author(s):  
TAKASHI INANMI ◽  
MAMORU KOBIYAMA ◽  
HIROSHI MAETA ◽  
MASATO SASASE ◽  
NORITO ISHIKAWA ◽  
...  

Specimens of nanocrystalline pure gold were prepared by the gas deposition method. The formation of helium bubbles in the specimens and their annealing behavior were studied in order to confirm their effect on thermal stabilities of grain size and mechanical properties. The specimens with 10-25nm mean grain size were analyzed by transmission electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction methods. Spherical helium bubbles, about 5nm in diameter, were formed, the same as in the case of helium ion implantation. After annealing at 573K for 1h in vacuum, most of the bubbles had not disappeared and some were trapped at the grain boundaries. Larger numbers of bubbles were trapped at grain boundaries in the specimens with high thermal stability than for low thermal stability specimens. Helium bubbles trapped at grain boundaries can be considered as local barriers to grain growth and to contribute to thermal stability of mechanical properties.


Author(s):  
H.G. Jiang ◽  
M.L. Lau ◽  
E.J. Lavernia

Abstract Nanocrystalline Inconel 718 and Ni powders were prepared using two approaches: methanol and cryogenic attritor milling. High velocity oxy-fuel (HVOF) spraying of milled Inconel 718 powders was then utilized to produce Inconel 718 coatings with a nanocrystalline grain size. Isothermal heat treatments were carried out to study the thermal stability of the methanol milled and cryomilled Inconel 718 powders, as well as the HVOF Inconel 718 coatings. All nanocrystalline Inconel 718 powders and coatings studied herein exhibited significant thermal stability against grain growth as evidenced by a grain size around 100 nm following annealing at 1273 K for 60 min. In the case of the cryomilled nanocrystalline Ni powders, isothermal grain growth behavior was studied, from which the parameters required for the prediction of the microstructural evolution during a non-isothermal annealing were acquired. The theoretical simulation of grain growth behavior of nanocrystalline Ni during non-isothermal annealing conditions yields results that are in good correspondence with the experimental results.


1999 ◽  
Vol 580 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.D. Hibbard ◽  
U. Erb ◽  
K.T. Aust ◽  
G. Palumbo

AbstractIn this study, the effect of grain size distribution on the thermal stability of electrodeposited nanocrystalline nickel was investigated by pre-annealing material such that a limited amount of abnormal grain growth was introduced. This work was done in an effort to understand the previously reported, unexpected effect, of increasing thermal stability with decreasing grain size seen in some nanocrystalline systems. Pre-annealing produced a range of grain size distributions in materials with relatively unchanged crystallographic texture and total solute content. Subsequent thermal analysis of the pre-annealed samples by differential scanning calorimetry showed that the activation energy of further grain growth was unchanged from the as-deposited nanocrystalline nickel.


1998 ◽  
Vol 514 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. F. Wu ◽  
A. Vantomne ◽  
S. Hogg ◽  
H. Pattyn ◽  
G. Langouche ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTThe Nd-disilicide, which exists only in a tetragonal or an orthorhombic structure, cannot be grown epitaxially on a Si(111) substrate. However, by adding Y and using channeled ion beam synthesis, hexagonal Nd0.32Y0.68Si1.7 epilayers with lattice constant of aepi = 0.3915 nm and cepi = 0.4152 nm and with good crystalline quality (χmin of Nd and Y is 3.5% and 4.3 % respectively) are formed in a Si(111) substrate. This shows that the addition of Y to the Nd-Si system forces the latter into a hexagonal structure. The epilayer is stable up to 950 °C; annealing at 1000 °C results in partial transformation into other phases. The formation, the structure and the thermal stability of this ternary silicide have been studied using Rutherford backscattering/channeling, x-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy.


2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moukrane Dehmas ◽  
Jacques Lacaze ◽  
Aliou Niang ◽  
Bernard Viguier

Inconel 718 is widely used because of its ability to retain strength at up to 650∘C for long periods of time through coherent metastable Ni3Nb precipitation associated with a smaller volume fraction of Ni3Al precipitates. At very long ageing times at service temperature, decomposes to the stable Ni3Nb phase. This latter phase is also present above the solvus and is used for grain control during forging of alloy 718. While most works available on precipitation have been performed at temperatures below the solvus, it appeared of interest to also investigate the case where phase precipitates directly from the fcc matrix free of precipitates. This was studied by X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). TEM observations confirmed the presence of rotation-ordered domains in plates, and some unexpected contrast could be explained by double diffraction due to overlapping phases.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mashael Alshabanat ◽  
Amal Al-Arrash ◽  
Waffa Mekhamer

Polymer nanocomposites of polystyrene matrix containing 10% wt of organo-montmorillonite (organo-MMT) were prepared using the solution method with sonication times of 0.5, 1, 1.5, and 2 hours. Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) is used to modify the montmorillonite clay after saturating its surface with Na+ions. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) were used to characterize the montmorillonite before and after modification by CTAB. The prepared nanocomposites were characterized using the same analysis methods. These results confirm the intercalation of PS in the interlamellar spaces of organo-MMT with a very small quantity of exfoliation of the silicate layers within the PS matrix of all samples at all studied times of sonication. The thermal stability of the nanocomposites was measured using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The results show clear improvement, and the effects of sonication time are noted.


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