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University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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2011

Small angle X-ray scattering

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Computational And Experimental Study Of Structure-Property Relationships In Nial Precipitate-Strengthened Ferritic Superalloys, Shenyan Huang Dec 2011

Computational And Experimental Study Of Structure-Property Relationships In Nial Precipitate-Strengthened Ferritic Superalloys, Shenyan Huang

Doctoral Dissertations

Ferritic superalloys strengthened by coherent ordered NiAl B2-type precipitates are promising candidates for ultra-supercritical steam-turbine applications, due to their superior resistance to creep, coarsening, oxidation, and steam corrosion as compared to Cr ferritic steels at high temperatures. Combined computational and experimental tools have been employed to investigate the interrelationships among the composition, microstructure, and mechanical behavior, and provide insight into deformation micromechanisms at elevated temperatures.

Self and impurity diffusivities in a body-centered-cubic (bcc) iron are calculated using first-principles methods. Calculated self and impurity diffusivities compare favorably with experimental measurements in both ferromagnetic and paramagnetic states of bcc Fe. The calculated …