The deformation behavior and fracture characteristics of NiAl intermetallic alloy containing 5~7 at% Cu are investigated at room temperature under strain rates ranging from 1 ˆ 10 ́3 to 5 ˆ 103 s ́1. It is shown that the copper contents and strain rate both have a significant effect on the mechanical behavior of the NiAl alloy. Specifically, the flow stress increases with an increasing copper con...

Deposition of metals on binary alloy surfaces offers new possibilities for guiding the formation of functional metal nanostructures. This idea is explored with scanning tunneling microscopy studies and atomistic-level analysis and modeling of nonequilibrium island formation. For Au/NiAl(110), complex monolayer structures are found and compared with the simple fcc(110) bilayer structure recently...

Coherent B2-ordered NiAl-type precipitates have been used to reinforce solid-solution body-centered-cubic iron for high-temperature application in fossil-energy power plants. In this study, we investigate the stability of nano-sized precipitates in a NiAl-strengthened ferritic alloy at 700-950 °C using ultra-small angle X-ray scattering and electron microscopies. Here we show that the coarsenin...

Dramatic changes in the surface morphology have been observed during the oxidation of stepped NiAl(16,14,1) by LEED and STM. The initial sequence of identical (110) terraces is lifted in favor of large, triangular planes, whose mean size is determined by the mismatch-induced stress that accumulates in the thin alumina film. The asymmetry of the original step direction on NiAl(16,14,1) with resp...

The oxidation resistant light weight aluminides: NiAl and TiAl with ordered

Chow-Choong Ngeow and Shashi M. Kanbur Astronomy Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 Sergei Nikolaev Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550 Nial R. Tanvir Department of Physical Science, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, UK and Martin A. Hendry Department of Physics and Astro...

We describe a new Ni5Al3 underlayer for high-density longitudinal magnetic recording. The Ni5Al3 underlayer has the FCC derivative Ga3Pt5 structure. The Ni5Al3 (221) plane has good lattice match with the CoCrPt (10 1 0) plane. In addition, unlike the NiAl (112) plane, the Ni5Al3 (221) plane has the lowest surface energy. Hence, the Ni5Al3 thin film has a strong (221) texture and can induce CoCr...

The internal friction of high-purity NiAl single crystals was investigated utilizing a low-frequency subresonance torsion a p m . Above lOOOK the damping increases strongly up to Q-' =0.3 at 1400K. The activation enthalpy of this viscoelastic relaxation depends on the composition and shows the highest value (2.8eV) for stoichiometric NiAl. The results are discussed in terms of diffusionantrolle...