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Simulations of Creep in Ductile-Phase Toughened Nb5Si3/Nb In-Situ Composites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2011

G. A. Henshall ,
M. J. Strum ,
P. R. Subramanian  and
M. G. Mendiratta
G. A. Henshall
Affiliation:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;
M. J. Strum
Affiliation:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;
P. R. Subramanian
Affiliation:
UES, Inc., Dayton, OH.
M. G. Mendiratta
Affiliation:
UES, Inc., Dayton, OH.
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Abstract

The primary and steady-state creep behavior of ductile-phase toughened Nb5Si3/Nb in-situ composites has been simulated using analytical and finite element (FE) continuum techniques. The microstructure of these composites is complex, consisting of large, elongated primary dendrites of the ductile (Nb) solid-solution phase in a eutectoid matrix with the silicide as the continuous phase. This microstructure has been idealized to facilitate the modeling; the effects of these idealizations on the predicted composite creep rates are discussed. Further, it has been assumed that the intrinsic creep behavior of each phase within the composite is the same as that of the corresponding bulk material. Thus, the experimentally measured creep properties of the bulk Nb5Si3 and (Nb) phases have been analyzed to provide the required material constants in the creep constitutive equation. Model predictions of the steady-state composite creep rate have been compared with the experimental results for a Nb-10 at.% Si alloy. While accurate at low stress, the models underpredict the composite creep rate at large stresses because the composite stress exponent is underpredicted. In the case of primary creep, the models somewhat over-predict the composite creep strain but are reasonably accurate given uncertainties in the primary creep data. Finally, FE predictions of the tensile stress distributions within the composites have been shown to be qualitatively consistent with the cracking observed experimentally during tertiary creep.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 364: Symposium L – High-Temperature Ordered Intermetallic Alloys–VI , 1994 , 937
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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