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Measuring Grain Boundary Character Distributions in Ni-Base Alloy 725 Using High-Energy Diffraction Microscopy

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We use high-energy X-ray diffraction microscopy (HEDM) to characterize the microstructure of Ni-base alloy 725. HEDM is a non-destructive technique capable of providing three-dimensional reconstructions of grain shapes and orientations in polycrystals. The present analysis yields the grain size distribution in alloy 725 as well as the grain boundary character distribution (GBCD) as a function of lattice misorientation and boundary plane normal orientation. We find that the GBCD of Ni-base alloy 725 is similar to that previously determined in pure Ni and other fcc-base metals. We find an elevated density of Σ9 and Σ3 grain boundaries. We also observe a preponderance of grain boundaries along low-index planes, with those along (1 1 1) planes being the most common, even after Σ3 twins have been excluded from the analysis.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the BP-MIT Materials and Corrosion Center. This research used resources at the Advanced Photon Source, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. AB acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation, Grant No. 1150862, in HEDM data analysis. JPH thanks the Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellowship Program (DOE SCGF), made possible in part by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, administered by ORISE-ORAU under Contract No. DE-AC05-06OR23100. Work at CMU was supported by the Department of Energy/Basic Energy Sciences Grant DESC0002001. Computational support for this research was provided by Grant TG-DMR130061 from the National Science Foundation’s Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) advanced support program.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Akbar Bagri (Postdoctoral Associate), Silvija Gradečak (Professor) & Michael J. Demkowicz (Associate Professor)

  2. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    John P. Hanson (PhD Student)

  3. Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Jonathan Lind (PhD Student) & Robert M. Suter (Professor)

  4. X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA

    Peter Kenesei (Beamline Scientist)

  5. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA

    Michael J. Demkowicz (Associate Professor)

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Bagri, A., Hanson, J.P., Lind, J. et al. Measuring Grain Boundary Character Distributions in Ni-Base Alloy 725 Using High-Energy Diffraction Microscopy. Metall Mater Trans A 48, 354–361 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-016-3831-x

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