Mathieu Fèvre

Residual stress determination in a shot‐peened nickel‐based single‐crystal superalloy using X‐ray diffraction

A residual stress depth profile up to 1 mm is determined with the Ortner method in a single crystal of a nickel-based superalloy which has been subjected to shot-peening. An optimization procedure is assessed to minimize uncertainties connected to Bragg angle, mosaic spread and numerical stability. The theoretical background is reviewed to highlight the connections between Bragg angle positions and the stress tensor components in different coordinate systems and also to obtain a mathematically consistent formulation. Transformation matrices required to express the strain components with respect to the initial state are provided for the general case. It is shown that, when a stress gradient occurs beneath the sample surface plane, the value of the σ33 component of the stress tensor determined from measurements is twice its true value. For a sample surface oriented along a 〈100〉 crystallographic direction, the data analysis shows that the compressive stresses which develop in the 150 µm-thick surface layer are compensated for by small tensile stresses developing at long scale rather than a specific layer of finite size featuring high tensile stresses. At least 17 Bragg angles are required to have stable solutions with standard deviations close to 30 MPa. Maximum compressive stresses of 1000 or 1400 MPa depending on the assumption used to describe the initial state occur at a 30 µm depth.

Influence of atomic size mismatch on binary alloy phase diagrams

Abstract The aim of this paper is to investigate the consequences of atomic size mismatch on the thermodynamics and the topology of binary phase diagrams of face centred cubic alloys. Simple pairwise interatomic potentials with few controlling parameters are used to identify general tendencies. Thermodynamic states are computed by Monte Carlo simulations on a non-rigid lattice. A special attention has been paid to the comparison between calculations in the canonical ensemble, where composition–temperature phase diagrams are determined through van der Waals loops, and in the grand canonical ensemble, where phase diagrams are computed using an interface migration technique. It is shown that these two procedures lead essentially to the same incoherent phase diagram. In the case of phase separating systems, we argue that the introduction of a size mismatch leads to a shrinkage of the solid solution domain and that the asymmetry of the miscibility gap is essentially controlled by the anharmonicity of the heteroatomic potential. Finally, in the case of ordering systems, we show that the asymmetry of the phase diagram may be due to the anharmonicity of the pair potentials or to the differences between their curvatures, the former effect being dominant if the atomic size mismatch is large.

Local strain redistribution in a coarse-grained nickel-based superalloy subjected to shot-peening, fatigue or thermal exposure investigated using synchrotron X-ray Laue microdiffraction

Abstract The Laue microdiffraction technique was used to investigate the strain field caused by the shot-peening operation and its redistribution after thermal hold or fatigue in a model nickel-based superalloy with an average grain size of

Impact of Residual Stresses on the Fatigue Behavior of a Nickel-Based Superalloy

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Local order and thermal conductivity in yttria-stabilized zirconia. II. Numerical and experimental investigations of thermal conductivity

40μm. Micrometer and millimeter size mappings showed that the plastic deformation introduced by shot-peening in the whole sample partially relaxes after a thermal exposure at

Determination of the long-range order parameter from the tetragonality ratio of L 1 0 alloys

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