Influence of Niobium Content on the Hot Mechanical Behavior of Nickel Alloys

Abstract:

Nickel-base superalloys are usually employed for large forged parts in aerospace industry. A comprehensive understanding of their mechanical behavior during hot working is required, especially for manufacturers in order to enhance the in-service properties. In this context, the first part of the work aims at investigating the mechanical behavior of nickel during hot deformation, with particular emphasis on the influence of niobium additions in solid solution. For this purpose, a series of wrought model alloys including pure nickel and Ni-Nb alloys (Ni-0.01, 0.1, 1, 2, 5 and 10 wt. % Nb) were prepared and deformed by hot torsion at temperatures ranging from 800 to 1000 °C degrees and at three (von Mises equivalent) strain rates of 0.03, 0.1 and 0.3 s^-1. Afterwards, the key rheological parameters that characterize strain hardening and dynamic recovery were determined through a simple analytical method based on the classical Laasraoui-Jonas constitutive equation, allowing reasonable fit for the flow curves for all studied Ni-Nb alloys. In this way, the effect of niobium solutes on the fundamental mechanisms of deformation was well highlighted. In the second part, three usual models describing strain hardening and dynamic recovery, referred to as the Laasraoui-Jonas (LJ), Kocks-Mecking (KM), and power law (PW) equations are compared within the range of moderate strains. Transformation formulae are derived, allowing the parameters of one law to be computed from the parameters of any of the two others. The theoretical derivations are illustrated by the specific case of a Ni-Nb alloy in the solid solution domain.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 879)
• Pages: 1251-1257
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.879.1251
• Online since: November 2016
• Authors: N. Matougui*, David Piot, M.L. Fares, Frank Montheillet
• Keywords: Constitutive Parameters, Dynamic Recrystallization, Mechanical Characterization, Modeling, Nickel Based Superalloy, THERMOMECHANICAL PROCESSING

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