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Mechanism of solute hardening and dislocation debris-mediated ductilization in Nb-Si alloy

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Niobium(Nb)is sensitive to even minute quantities of silicon(Si)solutes,which are known to induce pronounced hardening.However,the underlying mechanism for hardening remains elusive since the ef-fect of Si solutes on dislocation behavior is unclear.Here,using tensile testing,in-situ microscopy and nanomechanical testing,the behavior of dislocations in dilute Nb-Si alloys,containing from 0 at.%to 0.8 at.%Si,is investigated.We show that the hardness,strength and strain hardening rate increase from two to four times,while the uniform elongation in tension only reduces 50%as the Si content increases.Dislocations evolve from complex entangled patterns in Nb to parallel long-straight screw dislocation-dominated structures in Nb-Si alloys.In-situ indentation reveals that the origins of the marked harden-ing in Nb-Si alloy are the reduction of dislocation mobility and cross-slip propensity.Large densities of dislocation debris-superjogs and loops introduced throughout the sample during warm rolling and an-nealing are found to provide active internal dislocation sources,which explain the minimal ductility loss seen in these Nb-Si alloys.These findings can help guide the alloy design of high-performance refractory materials for extreme temperature applications.

NiobiumSi soluteHardeningDuctilizationDislocation

Bo-Qing Li、Irene J.Beyerlein、Shuhei Shinzato、Shigenobu Ogata、Wei-Zhong Han

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Center for Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale,State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials,Xi'an Jiaotong University,Xi'an 710049,China

Materials Department,University of California,Santa Barbara,CA 93106-5070,USA

Department of Mechanical Engineering,University of California,Santa Barbara,CA 93106-5070,USA

Department of Mechanical Science and Bioengineering,Osaka University,Osaka 560-8531,Japan

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2024

材料科学技术(英文版)
中国金属学会 中国材料研究学会 中国科学院金属研究所

材料科学技术(英文版)

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影响因子:0.657
ISSN:1005-0302
年,卷(期):2024.203(36)