Exceptional increase in the creep life of magnesium rare-earth alloys due to localized bond stiffening

Deep Choudhuri (), Srivilliputhur G. Srinivasan (), Mark A. Gibson, Yufeng Zheng, David L. Jaeger, Hamish L. Fraser and Rajarshi Banerjee ()
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Deep Choudhuri: University of North Texas
Srivilliputhur G. Srinivasan: University of North Texas
Mark A. Gibson: CSIRO Manufacturing
Yufeng Zheng: The Ohio State University
David L. Jaeger: University of North Texas
Hamish L. Fraser: The Ohio State University
Rajarshi Banerjee: University of North Texas

Nature Communications, 2017, vol. 8, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: Abstract Several recent papers report spectacular, and unexpected, order of magnitude improvement in creep life of alloys upon adding small amounts of elements like zinc. This microalloying effect raises fundamental questions regarding creep deformation mechanisms. Here, using atomic-scale characterization and first principles calculations, we attribute the 600% increase in creep life in a prototypical Mg–rare earth (RE)–Zn alloy to multiple mechanisms caused by RE–Zn bonding—stabilization of a large volume fraction of strengthening precipitates on slip planes, increase in vacancy diffusion barrier, reduction in activated cross-slip, and enhancement of covalent character and bond strength around Zn solutes along the c-axis of Mg. We report that increased vacancy diffusion barrier, which correlates with the observed 25% increase in interplanar bond stiffness, primarily enhances the high-temperature creep life. Thus, we demonstrate that an approach of local, randomized tailoring of bond stiffness via microalloying enhances creep performance of alloys.

Date: 2017
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