High-temperature tensile properties of the grain boundary engineered NIMONIC PE16

Sekio, Yoshihiro  ; Yamashita, Shinichiro   ; Sakaguchi, Norihito*; Shibayama, Tamaki*; Watanabe, Seiichi*; Tokita, Shun*; Fujii, Hiromichi*; Sato, Yutaka*; Kokawa, Hiroyuki*

In order to improve ductility loss by helium embrittlement (or grain boundary embrittlement) induced under high temperature and neutron irradiation dose in nickel alloys which are expected to have high-temperature phase stability under non-irradiation, the grain boundary engineering was applied for NIMONIC PE16 to enhance the grain boundary strength. And, its high temperature tensile properties under non-irradiation were investigated as the first approach. As a result, the temperature dependence of the yield stress in the grain boundary engineered (GBE) PE16 was similar to that in NIMINIC PE16, but the yield stress was slightly lower and the uniform elongation was slightly higher at each temperature in GBE PE16 comparing to NIMINIC PE16. This would be caused by grain coarsening due to some heat treatments. If the gain size of GBE PE16 is optimized, tensile properties of GBE PE16 would be the same or more than that of NIMONIC PE16.