Papers by Keyword: Grain Boundary Segregation

Abstract: The needs for advanced functional materials are expected to provide a boost in powder metallurgy, where impurities on powder surfaces are incorporated as grain boundary segregation. This paper has three aims. After the consistency check, we analyze whether the reported data of Ni and Fe hosts can be correlated to the Mendeleev number of chemical elements. The data of the solvents were analyzed using the software R for principal component analysis (PCA). We grouped and correlated the data to Mendeleev number. The third aim is correlation with other element data such as solubility. As a result, we found that the embrittlement depends strongly on the chemical bonding. Surprisingly, the geometry of the grain boundary type such as interlayer distances, and local atomic volumes has only a minor influence.

Abstract: The segregation and precipitation behavior of phosphoruswas studied in aNi-Fe-Cr base wroughtsuperalloy. The precipitation behavior of phosphides in the alloy contained 0.025% Pwas examined after soaking at 750-1080°C to determine the precipitation temperature range of MNP-type phosphide. The microstructuresunder these various conditions wereinvestigated by scanning electron microscope(SEM) and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). The precipitation temperature of the phosphide in the alloy was determined to be in the range of 850-1040 °C and the precipitation peak temperature was around 980°C.In addition, the melting temperatureof the phosphide was determined to be between 1200 °C and 1250 °C. The current results indicate the tendency of phosphorus segregated at grain boundaries.

Abstract: In this article new experimental evidences of anomalous grain boundary diffusion (GBD) of Fe and Co in Cu were describe. To demonstrate that the brief describing of results of grain boundary diffusion in Cu with following formulation of rules which can be established on the base of the analysis of the results is presented. Experimental results which are described here concern the attempt to change the effect negative segregation by microalloying by sulfur which did not change the situation and the diffusion through foil which allowed to demonstrate the absence of accelerated GB diffusion without specific sample preparation. It is shown that GBs do not give the additional effect to the flux of Fe and Co through the foil. The extended model of surface tension gradient as an additional driving force is described.

Abstract: Despite nanosegregation of solutes at grain boundaries has been intensively studied in the past decades and numerous theoretical data as well as experimental values on characteristic energies and/or enthalpies and entropies exist some questions remain still unanswered. In this paper some of these questions – Which energetic quantities obtained in different ways, experimentally and theoretically, can be mutually compared What is the segregation site of a solute in the grain boundary core – are discussed in more detail. It will be shown that the entropy of grain boundary segregation plays an important and indisputable role in responding some issues and that understanding of its role will help us to elucidate fundamentals of the grain boundary segregation.

Abstract: Texture evolution in two magnesium alloys, Mg-4%Zn-1%Nd and Mg-1%Zn-1%Nd (weight percentage), was studied after rolling and the subsequent isothermal annealing. The finish rolling was completed in a single pass with a thickness reduction rate of ~30% at 100 °C and a rolling speed of 1000 m/min. After cooling to room temperature, the rolled samples were annealed at 350 °C for different annealing times. Upon annealing, the maximum intensity of the basal pole texture decreases as recrystallization progresses. In the Mg-1Zn-1Nd alloy (with a high Nd/Zn ratio), texture weakening is maintained even after complete recrystallization and grain coarsening, while in the Mg-4Zn-1Nd alloy, texture strengthening occurs after grain coarsening, and a single peak replaces the double split basal peaks. In the Mg-1Zn-1Nd alloy, grain coarsening is accompanied by a bimodal grain size distribution, whereas in the Mg-4Zn-1Nd alloy, the grain coarsening leads to a uniform grain size distribution. TEM investigations show the formation of the Zn and Nd rich clusters at early stage of annealing in both alloys. During recrystallization, these clusters were dissolved in the Mg-4Zn-1Nd alloy, but they are more stable in the Mg-1Zn-1Nd alloy. In our opinion, the formation of these stable clusters is one of the main factors for texture weakening of the Mg-Zn-RE alloys.

Abstract: Martensitic sheet steel is increasingly being used in advanced car body construction, especially in areas where high crash loads are expected. Using such steels appropriately the weight of individual components can be reduced by up to 20 percent. Martensitic steel sheet is commercially available in the strength range of 1200 to 1900 MPa, either as cold forming or hot stamping grade. Whereas the strength of such martensitic steels is practically only a function of the carbon content, other properties such as ductility, toughness, bendability and delayed cracking resistance are severely influenced by other alloying elements and the particular thermal processing route. The paper discusses the influence of various key-alloying elements such as Nb, Mo and B on these properties and suggests routes to optimize the steel’s behavior with respect to the manufacturing and application related aspects.Keywords Martensite, prior austenite grain size, delayed cracking, grain boundary segregation, hydrogen trapping, niobium, molybdenum

Abstract: The grain boundary segregation of carbon atoms is influenced by grain size and annealing condition. Increasing grain size and improving the final cooling ( ＜400 oC) rate can improve the bake hardening property, due to the decreasing of carbon segregation at grain boundaries. Cooling rates have a great effect on bake hardening property of ULC steel with smaller grains

Abstract: In ferritic stainless steels, the amount of Cr is moderately controlled to have good corrosion resistance in applied environment. However, it also affects the yield strength of ferritic stainless steels through solid solution strengthening and grain refinement strengthening. Until now, some researches have been performed using commercial stainless steels but the obtained results contain the effect of solute interstitials (C and N). In this paper, the influence of Cr on the above both strengthening mechanism was discussed by using interstitial free ferritic stainless steel in which carbon and nitrogen are completely fixed as Ti(C,N). A previous paper has reported that the addition of chromium gives different influences to the Hall-Petch coefficient depending on the amount of Cr. However, our research has reveals the fact that the change of Hall-Petch coefficient is not due to the effect of chromium but due to small amount of carbon which exists as an impurity in ferritic stainless steels. It was concluded that chromium itself does not give any influence to the Hall-Petch coefficient of ferritic iron.

Abstract: Yield strength of ferritic steel increases with grain refinement standing on the Hall-Petch relation. In low carbon ferritic steels, the following relation is established between yield strength σ_y and grain size d: σ_y [MPa]= 100+600/√d [μm]. The Hall-Petch coefficient of interstitial free steels is substantially small as 0.15MPa·√m but it can be greatly increased by the existence of small amount of solute carbon less than 60ppm. As for the effect of substitutional elements such as Cr and P, some papers reports fairly large influence to the Hall-Petch coefficient of ferritic iron. However, the effect of small amount of carbon is sometime neglected or not cleared on the evaluation of Hall-Petch coefficient in ferritic steels. In order to evaluate the effect of substitutional elements, the research should be performed using interstitial free steels to eliminate the influence of solute carbon and nitrogen. In this paper, Hall-Petch relation was examined in iron, Fe-Cr alloys and Fe-P alloys with 0.02-0.05mass% Ti and the following results were obtained: 1) The Hall-Petch coefficient of interstitial free iron is about 0.15MPa·√m. 2) Chromium does not give any influence to the Hall-Petch coefficient of ferritic iron, although the friction stress σ₀ is enhanced in proportional to chromium content (Δσ₀ [MPa]=7×(mass%Cr)). 3) Phosphorus does not affect the Hall-Petch coefficient of ferritic iron or reduce it somewhat but increases markedly the friction stress σ₀ (Δσ₀ [MPa]=250×(mass%P)^1/2). 4) Even under the co-existence of carbon with chromium and phosphorus, carbon dominantly works to increase the Hall-Petch coefficient of ferritic steels, but it is changeable due to the interaction between carbon and the other substitutional elements.

Abstract: The GB embrittlement mechanism of Fe enhanced by P segregation has been investigated by first-principles tensile tests because a P atom is a famous GB embrittler in Fe. The first-principles tensile tests have been performed on Fe with two P-segregated GBs, where P atoms are located at the different sites, and with a nonsegregated GB. The tensile strength and the strain to failure in the P-segregated GBs were lower than those in the nonsegegated GB. The first bond breaking occurred at the Fe-P bond owing to the covalent-like characteristics, although the charge densities were high at the Fe-P bonds even just before the bond breaking. This premature bond breaking of Fe-P was independent of the location of the P atom.