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Improving the resistance to intergranular cracking and corrosion at elevated temperatures by grain-boundary-engineering-type processing

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Failure of structural components operating under high mechanical loading and/or in aggressive environments can often be attributed to intergranular degradation, e.g. by creep, corrosion, fatigue or brittle cracking. The present article is focussed on oxygen-diffusion-controlled grain-boundary attack, for example, of a nickel-based superalloy leading to intercrystalline oxidation or rapid cracking by dynamic embrittlement. Since grain-boundary diffusion depends on the crystallographic orientation relationship between adjacent grains, the grain-boundary-engineering approach was applied to reduce the susceptibility to grain-boundary attack. The relevant mechanisms are discussed in terms of modifying the network of general high-angle and so-called special grain boundaries taking the results of cracking experiments on bicrystals into account.

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The financial support by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research under grant no. 538532, by the U.S. Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, under grant no. DE-FGO-OIER 45924, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), under grant no. KR1999/7-1 and by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation through a Feodor Lynen fellowship to the author is gratefully acknowledged. Furthermore, the author acknowledges the experimental contribution by Dr. William M. Kane, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA and Dr. Vicente Braz da Trinade Filho, University of Siegen, Germany, and the many useful discussions with Professor Charles J. MacMahon Jr. and Professor Campbell Laird, both University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

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Krupp, U. Improving the resistance to intergranular cracking and corrosion at elevated temperatures by grain-boundary-engineering-type processing. J Mater Sci 43, 3908–3916 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-007-2363-6

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