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SCIENCE CHINA-PHYSICS MECHANICS & ASTRONOMY
Volume 64, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11433-020-1614-5
Keywords
nano-grained alloys; thermal stability; grain boundary segregation; eigenstress; eigenstrain
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- National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFB0701604]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11672168]
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This study systematically analyzed the thermodynamics of Grain Boundary (GB) segregation and relaxation in Nano-Grained (NG) polycrystalline alloys, highlighting the significant role of stress induced by GB segregation and relaxation in the thermal stability of NG alloys. A novel criterion for thermal stability in NG alloys was proposed based on the molar free energy difference between a NG alloy and its reference single crystal.
The present study carries out systematic thermodynamics analysis of Grain Boundary (GB) segregation and relaxation in Nano-Grained (NG) polycrystalline alloys. GB segregation and relaxation is an internal process towards thermodynamic equilibrium, which occurs naturally in NG alloys without any applied loads, causes deformation and generates internal stresses. The analysis comprehensively investigates the multiple coupling effects among chemical concentrations and mechanical stresses in GBs and grains. A hybrid approach of eigenstress and eigenstrain is developed herein to solve the multiple coupling problem. The analysis results indicate that the GB stress and grain stress induced by GB segregation and relaxation can be extremely high in NG alloys, reaching the GPa level, which play an important role in the thermal stability of NG alloys, especially via the coupling terms between stress and concentration. The present theoretic analysis proposes a novel criterion of thermal stability for NG alloys, which is determined by the difference in molar free energy between a NG alloy and its reference single crystal with the same nominal chemical composition. If the difference at a temperature is negative or zero, the NG alloy is thermal stable at that temperature, otherwise unstable.
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