Tensile tests on the <001> oriented single crystals were carried out at elevated temperatures from 623 to 873k to invertigate the deformation behavior. The deformation behavior changes from pure metal type to alloy type with increase in stress in a low stress region and vice versa in a high stress region. The stress exponent of steady state strain rate, n, is about 5 in the low stress region, about 3 in the middle stress region and 5 or more in the high stress region. The mobile dislocation density ih the steady state is expressed as: ρ
m=β(σ/μ)
2 where σ is the applied stress, μ the shear modulus, and β depends on the deformation temperature. The general rate equation showing the relation between strain rate and steady state stress for the alloy type behavior is introduced.
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