Papers by Keyword: Particle Strengthening

Abstract: A temperature dependence of the tensile mechanical properties, microstructure and fracture mechanism of high-nitrogen Fe-(19-23)Cr-(17-21)Mn-(0-3)V-(0.1-0.3)C-(0.5-0.9)N vanadium-free and vanadium-containing steels was investigated. For all steels, the 0.2% offset yield strength and strain-hardening drastically increase with a decrease in test temperature. This is associated with high interstitial solid solution strengthening of the steels and more pronounced twinning and stacking-fault formation during straining below room temperature. For the vanadium-free steel, a ductile-to-brittle transition was evaluated: at 77K specimens destroy by cleavage mechanism while at room temperature steels show ductile fracture. Vanadium-alloying provides a particle strengthening of the steels and, at the same time, reduce solid-solution strengthening. Increase of vanadium concentration fully or partially suppress brittle fracture of the steels at 77K. Particle strengthening changes interstitial solid-solution effect, dislocation arrangement and slip/twinning relation in vanadium-containing high-nitrogen steels compared to vanadium-free one.

Abstract: This paper presents a 3D discrete dislocation dynamics (DDD) model describing dislocation processes in crystals subjected to loadings at high temperatures. Smooth dislocations are approximated by short straight segments. Every segment is acted upon by a Peach-Koehler force obtained by summing up forces from all dislocation segments and a force due to the applied stress. The model addresses interactions between individual dislocations and rigid precipitates. The model is applied to a migration of low angle tilt boundaries (LATBs) characterized by different initial dislocation density and constrained by precipitates of different sizes. The calculations showed that, for applied shear stresses σ_xz lower than a certain threshold σ_crit.(h), the LATB is inhibited by the precipitate field. For σ_xz above σ_crit.(h), the LATB passes through the precipitate field. Some combinations of σxz and h lead to a decomposition of the LATB. The LATBs thus may evolve in three distinct modes depending on the initial microstructure. The threshold stress behaviour is known from creep tests of dispersion-strengthened NiCr alloys [1]. Furthermore, the critical stresses obtained from our calculations are below Orowan stresses for corresponding particle distribution. This behaviour has been also reported in creep experiments [1].