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Atomistic Simulation Study Of Nickel Solute Segregation And Mechanical Behavior In Nanocrystalline Fcc, Bcc And Hcp Binary Alloys, Eve-Audrey Picard
Atomistic Simulation Study Of Nickel Solute Segregation And Mechanical Behavior In Nanocrystalline Fcc, Bcc And Hcp Binary Alloys, Eve-Audrey Picard
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Nanocrystalline metals and alloys have been proven to possess unprecedentedly higher tensile strength than coarse-grained conventional metals. The extreme grain refinement in nanocrystalline metals, however, negatively affects these materials by reducing their ductility through grain-boundary embrittlement and shear localization mechanisms that are promoted by segregation of solute atoms to the interfaces. Different segregation behaviors described in the literature can be divided into either heterogeneous or homogeneous types. Yet current understanding of the impact of solute atom arrangements within grain boundary networks on mechanical properties of cubic and hexagonal nanocrystals remains limited. In this thesis, hybrid Monte-Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations …
Tribological Performance Of Novel Nickel-Based Composite Coatings With Lubricant Particles, Ignacio Tudela, Andrew J. Cobley, Yi Zhang
Tribological Performance Of Novel Nickel-Based Composite Coatings With Lubricant Particles, Ignacio Tudela, Andrew J. Cobley, Yi Zhang
Friction
The present study is focused on the evaluation of the tribological performance of novel Ni/hBN and Ni/WS2 composite coatings electrodeposited from an additive-free Watts bath with the assistance of ultrasound. Lubricated and non-lubricated scratch tests were performed on both novel composite coatings and on standard Ni deposits used as a benchmark coating to have an initial idea of the effect of the presence of particles within the Ni matrix. Under lubricated conditions, the performance of the Ni/hBN composite coating was very similar to the benchmark Ni coating, whereas the Ni/WS2 behaved quite differently, as the latter did not only show …
Development Of Nial-Based Intermetallic Alloys: Effect Of Chromium Addition, R. Tiwari, Surendra N. Tewari, R. Asthana, A. Garg
Development Of Nial-Based Intermetallic Alloys: Effect Of Chromium Addition, R. Tiwari, Surendra N. Tewari, R. Asthana, A. Garg
Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications
The mechanical behavior of dual-phase NiAl(Cr) microstructures, consisting of elongated primary NiAl grains aligned with an intergranular NiAl-Cr eutectic phase, produced by extrusion of a cast NiAl(Cr) alloy, has been examined. Chromium addition to create a dual phase NiAl-based aligned microstructure leads to large increases in the yield strength but no significant toughness improvement. This is achieved primarily by solid solution hardening and precipitation hardening. The constitutional hardening rate resulting from deviations from stoichiometry in the nickel-rich NiAl was estimated to be about 66 MPa per atomic per cent of nickel.