Plane strain compression of single crystalline Ni3Al-base intermetallic compounds

Abstract

Anisotropic deformation behavior of single crystalline Ni3Al-base intermetallic compounds, including Ni3Al single-phase and Ni/Ni3Al two-phase alloys, was systematically studied by the plane strain compression tests. Plastic flow behavior of single phase Ni3Al is strongly dependent on the initial crystal orientation and the flow stress becomes higher with increasing the numbers of the operative slip planes. In the case of the Ni/Ni3Al two phase alloys, the flow behavior is found to be divided into two stages. Such flow behavior is considered to be closely related to the difference in the deformation behavior between Ni solid solution and Ni3Al precipitates.