2003 Volume 43 Issue 12 Pages 2062-2066
The deformation behavior at high temperature of a Type 800 Incoloy alloy reinforced by TiC particles was investigated by tensile and torsion tests at temperatures ranging from 800 to 1 200°C. The as-received material exhibited a microstructure of coarse equiaxic grains with subgrains decorated by small TiC particles. The material showed an activation energy for plastic flow of 400 kJ/mol similar to the activation energy for lattice diffusion in austenitic stainless steels. The stress exponents varied strongly with testing conditions. After testing at temperatures up to 1 000°C, the initial austenitic grains were elongated in the tensile direction, but the subgrain structure did not change with stress. In contrast, a microstructural refinement was observed after tensile testing at 1 100°C, which was associated with a process of dynamic recrystallization that occurs during deformation. At this temperature the deformation behavior of the material can be described by a slip creep mechanism. At the rest of the test temperatures the controlling mechanism is that of constant-structure slip creep.
