Commercial zirconium carbide (ZrC) powder is consolidated by Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS). Processing temperatures range from 1650 to 2100 °C. Specimens with various density levels are obtained when performing single-die SPS at different temperatures. Besides the single-die tooling setup, a double-die tooling setup is employed to largely increase the actual applied pressure to achieve higher de...

The paper is concerned with the structure of multiaxial stress-strain relations in timedependent metal plasticity, as for transient creep and rate sensitive yielding. First. a general kinematical relation is developed between the macroscopic inelastic strain tensor and microstructural slip displacements, as modeled either by continuum shearing on crystallographic planes of individual grains or ...

Hot isostatic pressing (HIP) technology can effectively reduce microstructure defects such as micropores, which are formed during solidification and hominization heat treatment, thus further improve the high temperature performance of nickel-based SX superalloys. This paper reviews application HIP treatment in superalloys, focusing on dislocation-creep closure diffusion-creep mechanisms kinetic...

Directionally solidified (DS) Ni-base superalloys have become a commonly used material in gas turbine components. Controlled solidification during the material manufacturing process leads to a special alignment of the grain boundaries within the material. This alignment results in different material properties dependent on the orientation of the material. When used in gas turbine applications t...

New microstructural rate controlling models for high temperature deformation are suggested which are in satisfactory agreement not only with activation parameter values but also with various metallographic observations. Non-compact slip in the HCP and FCC structures can be described by a kink pair mechanism. This process could control dislocation glide through subgrains, and therefore the creep...