{"title":"A unified model of tensile and creep deformation for use in niobium alloy materials selection and design for high-temperature applications","authors":"L.S. Bowling , N.R. Philips , D.E. Matejczyk , J.M. Skelton , J.M. Fitz-Gerald , S.R. Agnew","doi":"10.1016/j.mtla.2024.102210","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is renewed interest in refractory alloys that possess higher service temperatures than incumbent Ni-based superalloys (e.g., ⪆1100 °C). This study provides a review of the high-temperature constitutive responses of Nb-alloys measured over a wide range of temperatures (≈860 °C < T < ≈1760 °C) and strain rates (≈10<sup>–9</sup> s<sup>-1</sup>< <span><math><mover><mrow><mi>ε</mi></mrow><mi>˙</mi></mover></math></span> < ≈10<sup>–1</sup> s<sup>-1</sup>). Nevertheless, the extant data is sparse and informed materials selection decisions require constitutive expressions to interpolate and reliably extrapolate. The Larson-Miller parameter approach to describe creep-life provides a conservative estimate of material response at the highest temperatures and lowest strain rates, whereas the Sellars-Tegart model describes both steady-state creep and high-temperature tensile test data with a single, universal equation. A minimum flow stress based on the combination of these two models is proposed for design considerations to address the overprediction of strength that can arise from applying one or the other independently. This effort highlights the fact that refractory alloys exhibit strain rate sensitive flow strengths in the temperature range of interest for applications. The roles of alloying, thermomechanical processing, and impurity levels are discussed, and highlight the fact that these advanced Nb-alloys evidence Class 1 (Class A) solute drag controlled creep behavior, except the carbide precipitation strengthened alloy, D-43. In addition, the high-temperature strengths are confirmed to be strongly correlated with alloy melting point.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47623,"journal":{"name":"Materialia","volume":"38 ","pages":"Article 102210"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Materialia","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589152924002072","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
There is renewed interest in refractory alloys that possess higher service temperatures than incumbent Ni-based superalloys (e.g., ⪆1100 °C). This study provides a review of the high-temperature constitutive responses of Nb-alloys measured over a wide range of temperatures (≈860 °C < T < ≈1760 °C) and strain rates (≈10–9 s-1< < ≈10–1 s-1). Nevertheless, the extant data is sparse and informed materials selection decisions require constitutive expressions to interpolate and reliably extrapolate. The Larson-Miller parameter approach to describe creep-life provides a conservative estimate of material response at the highest temperatures and lowest strain rates, whereas the Sellars-Tegart model describes both steady-state creep and high-temperature tensile test data with a single, universal equation. A minimum flow stress based on the combination of these two models is proposed for design considerations to address the overprediction of strength that can arise from applying one or the other independently. This effort highlights the fact that refractory alloys exhibit strain rate sensitive flow strengths in the temperature range of interest for applications. The roles of alloying, thermomechanical processing, and impurity levels are discussed, and highlight the fact that these advanced Nb-alloys evidence Class 1 (Class A) solute drag controlled creep behavior, except the carbide precipitation strengthened alloy, D-43. In addition, the high-temperature strengths are confirmed to be strongly correlated with alloy melting point.
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