The creep behavior of Mg-9Al-1Si-1SiC composite at elevated temperature

The creep properties of as-cast Mg-9Al-1Si alloy and Mg-9Al-1Si-1SiC composite were compared.The results show that Mg-9A1-lSi-lSiC composite performs a better creep resistance than that of Mg-9Al-1Si alloy at constant temperature and stress(473 K,70MPa).Besides,the creep behavior of Mg-9Al-1 Si-1SiC composite at various temperature from 448 K to 498 K and under stresses of 70-90 MPa were systematically investigated.The Mg-9Al-1 Si-1SiC composite exhibited a stress exponent from 5.5 to 6.9 and the creep activation energy fell within the range of 86-111 kJ/mol.The results showed that the creep mechanism of Mg-9Al-1Si-1SiC composite was mainly attributed to the effects of secondary phase strengthening mechanism and dislocation climb mechanism.

Stony Brook’s High-Pressure Laboratory Collaborations with French Scientists

For more than a half century, my colleagues and I in the Stony Brook High Pressure Laboratory have profited from collaborations with French scientists in their laboratories in Orsay, Paris, Toulouse, Lille, Lyon, Strasbourg and Rennes. These interactions have included postdoctoral appointments of French colleagues in our laboratory as well as two année sabbatique by me;in 1983-84, in the Laboratoire de Géophysique et Géodynamique Interne at the Université Paris XI in Orsay and in 2020-2003 in the Laboratoire des Méchanismes et Transfert en Géologie at the Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse. The objective of this report is to relate this history and to illustrate the scientific advances which resulted from these collaborations.

Correct Interpretation of Creep Rates: A Case Study of Cu

Traditionally the deformation resistance in creep is characterized by the minimum creep rate εmin and its sensitivity to stress （stress exponent n） and temperature （activation energy Q）. Various values of constant n have been reported in the literature and interpreted in terms of specific mechanisms. The present case study of coarse-grained Cu at 573 K yields a stress exponent n = 9 for εmin. in tension and a relatively low activation energy. The evolution of the deformation resistance with strain at constant tensile creep load and comparison with creep in compression without fracture indicates that the tensile εmin. result from transition from uniform deformation to strain localization during fracture. This is confirmed by the results of creep in compression where fracture is suppressed. Both the tensile εmin, and the compressive creep rate at strains around 0.3 can be described using existing equations for quasi-stationary deformation containing the subgrain boundary misorientation θ as structure parameter. While in the latter case constant θ leads to monotonic increase of n with stress, the tensile nine-power-law results from variable θ, and has no simple meaning. The result of this case study means that uncritical interpretation of minimum tensile creep rates as stationary ones bears a high risk of systematic errors in the determination of creep parameters and identification of creep mechanisms.

Reargument over E～j relation of high temperature superconductors

The E ～ j relation of an HTSC slab is solved strictly within the Bean’s model in two different situations where the system does and does not reach equilibrium state under the magnetic relaxation respectively, with both forward and backward hopping taken into consideration (the backward hopping means the hopping from the barriers with low energy to high ones). Our results suggest and rigorously prove that the In E ～ In j curves show only positive curvature on the side of slab where the directions of current-created field and the applied field are the same, while they show both positive and negative curvatures at a certain field range on the other side where the directions are opposite. The relationship of the positive and negative curvatures with the critical current, applied field and temperature is also discussed.