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MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING
Volume 527, Issue 7-8, Pages 1744-1750Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2009.10.064
Keywords
Nanostructured Ni; Nano-porosity; Grain boundary segregation; Ductility; Deformation
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- Office of Naval Research [N00014-08-1-0370]
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When bulk nanostructured (NS) materials are prepared via consolidation of individual particles, agglomerates or clusters, extraneous defects, such as porosity, insufficient bonding, and impurities are sometimes introduced leading to the degradation of ductility. in this study we propose to examine the hypothesis that deformation can be used to ameliorate the negative effects of these artifacts on the ductility of NS alloys. The approach involved cryomilling and forging to synthesize bulk NS nickel with porosity (95.5% theoretical density) and nitrogen grain boundary (GB) segregation. The results demonstrate that cold rolling resulted in an increase in tensile ductility from 2 to similar to 4%, with a slight decrease in yield strength from 1150 to 1050 MPa. Microstructural analyses suggest that the elimination of nano-porosity together with the physical breakdown of a continuous nitrogen layer at GBs during cold rolling is possibly responsible for the observed ductility enhancement, and in the case of the latter phenomena, a corresponding decrease in strength also. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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