KR20180110528A - CrCoNi ALLOYS WITH MULTI-DEFORMATION MECHANISM SENSING TEMPERATURE AND STRESS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a CrCoNi alloy having a temperature-stress sensitive multi-deformation mechanism and further improved in mechanical property, in which the stability of γ austenite phase is controlled by controlling the stacking fault energy through the control of the contents of additive elements in a CrCoNi ternary alloy, wherein the CrCoNi alloy is expressed as CraCobNic (a+b+c=100 at.%, 1<=a<=40, 1<=b<=75, 15<=c<=50), when the γ austenite phase is transformed to the ε martensite phase, the free energy change (ΔGhcp-fcc) during the phase transformation is controlled to be 19.1a-55.9b+104.7c-895.7<=2750, and the γ austenite phase has the multi-deformation mechanism that exhibits the TWIP characteristics and the TRIP characteristics with the ε martensitic phase as well as the dislocation-based deformation under stress, thereby exhibiting excellent mechanical properties in which the strength and elongation are improved at the same time by the development of the customized deformation mechanism. Since the mechanical property is greatly improved by the self-determination of a proper deformation mechanism according to the change in temperature and stress, the CrCoNi alloy of the present invention can be applied not only as a countermeasure material for an offshore plant and an extreme polar environment, which require excellent toughness and high strength at low temperatures, but also as a countermeasure material for a projectile propulsion unit, a nuclear pressure vessel, a cladding tube, a turbine blade for high-efficiency next generation thermal power generation, and the like, which require excellent high-temperature creep characteristics and high-temperature strength.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention relates to a CrCoNi alloy having a temperature-stress-responsive multimodal mechanism and a method of manufacturing the CrCoNi alloy, and a method of manufacturing the CrCoNi alloy.

The present invention relates to a ternary alloy composed of Cr, Co, and Ni, more particularly, to a method of controlling a stacking fault energy (SFE) , Twinning, and phase transformation mechanisms. The present invention also relates to a method for producing the same.

Recently, due to the depletion of resources due to reserves, the price of raw materials has risen, and the social demand for efficient resource utilization is increasing. To solve these problems, the steel industry focuses on the development of materials having high mechanical strength and high ductility as the same raw material. In addition to the movement of dislocation during material deformation, the composition of the alloy and the applied stress (Twin-induced plasticity) and TRIP (Transformation-induced plasticity) steels, which have various properties such as twinning and phase transformation depending on the degree of twinning.

Meanwhile, in recent years, a variety of new metal materials having properties such as TWIP and TRIP as well as steel have been actively developed. Especially, high entropy alloys, which have recently become an issue, exhibit unique TWIP characteristics in the cryogenic temperature region, and they are known to exhibit mechanical properties such as excellent strength and fracture toughness compared with conventional commercial alloys. However, until now, The research on the behavior of the deformation mechanism is proceeding only limitedly.

Japanese Patent No. 4190720

 Science, Vol. 345, Issue 6201, pp. 1153-1158

In order to further improve the mechanical properties of CrCoNi ternary alloys according to their temperature-stress characteristics, CrCoNi ternary alloys are used to control the stacking fault energy (SFE) (Austenite phase), thereby improving the stability to other phases of the γ-austenite phase in the external environment change. In addition, we tried to fabricate alloys which can cope with the self - determination of the deformation mechanism according to the temperature - stress change by controlling the energy of stacking defects of CrCoNi alloys, In particular, the austenitic alloys with face centered cubic (FCC) structures have a single phase or y austenite phase of γ austenite and ε martensite with hexagonal close packed (HCP) (A phase) and a phase change (a phase → e phase) according to the temperature-stress change, and the γ austenite phase was formed to have a double phase (DP) Lt; / RTI &gt; That is, it is an object of the present invention to provide a three-component alloy composition of CrCoNi having a multi-strain mechanism of TWIP, TRIP (single phase, complex phase) characteristics rather than a simple displacement-based strain according to temperature-stress variation .

A CrCoNi alloy having a temperature-stress-responsive multimodal mechanism according to the present invention for achieving the above object is a ternary alloy in which elements of Cr, Co and Ni act as a common main element, and Cr _a Co _b Ni _c b + c = 100 at.%, 1? a? 40, 1 b? 75, 15 c? 50), and when the phase transition from? austenite to? The change (? G _hcp - _fcc ) is represented by 19.1a-55.9b + 104.7c-895.7, and the value is not more than 2750 (300 K standard).

In the case of Cr, Co and Ni, which are the three-period transition metal elements used in the present invention, each element has a similar interatomic size of less than 10% and a small mixed heat relation close to zero, so that a single austenite stable The station can be secured. At this time, in order to allow the austenitic alloy to exhibit various deformation behaviors, the fraction of alloying elements was changed step by step, and the stacking defect energy was controlled and characteristics were examined. In particular, the Calphad calculation predicted an alloying system with a small free energy change (ΔG _{hcp- fcc} ) during the phase transition to γ austenite phase and ε martensite phase. The present alloy also controls the fraction of Co that is expected to lower the stacking defect energy as a result of alloying and consequently controls the amount of Ni expected to increase the stacking fault energy so that the γ austenite single phase or γ austenite phase and ε Martensite phase at the same time so that the γ-austenite phase exhibits characteristics of dislocation → twin → phase change (ε-martensitic phase) according to temperature and stress conditions, And exhibits improved and excellent mechanical properties.

By further including at least 10 atomic% of at least one element selected from the group consisting of C, N, Al, Ti, V, Cu, Zr, Nb and Mo in the alloy of the present invention, It is possible to improve the characteristics by strengthening the solid solution or precipitation strengthening in the base of the knit base.

In another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of manufacturing a CrCoNi alloy having a temperature-stress-responsive multimodal mechanism, comprising: preparing a raw material; And a step of dissolving the raw material to prepare a CoCrNi alloy, wherein the raw material is at least one selected from the group consisting of Cr _a Co _b Ni _c (a + b + c = 100 at.%, 1 a 40, 1 b 75 , but prepared with the composition range of 15≤c≤50), the free energy change at the time of phase transformation to the ε martensite on γ austenite in the composition range (ΔG _{hcp -fcc)} a 19.1a-55.9b + 104.7c- 895.7, it is characterized in that it is prepared so as to be not more than 2750 J / mol.

In addition, as an index related to the stacking defect energy in the process of designing the alloy having the temperature-stress-responsive multimodal mechanism of the present invention, the free energy change (? G _{hcp -?) During} the phase change upon phase transformation from? Austenite to? _fcc ), and when the free energy change (ΔG _hcp - _fcc ) at the time of phase transformation from the γ austenite phase to the ε martensite phase is less than 2750 J / mol, the γ austenite phase is used as the transition- , TRIP characteristics as well as dislocation / TWIP and finally TRIP characteristics at 120 J / mol or less are obtained at 1150 J / mol or less, and a CrCoNi alloy having TRIP characteristics at room temperature is obtained at room temperature.

At this time, it is preferable to carry out the homogenization treatment after the step of producing the CrCoNi alloy, and the homogenization treatment is performed by hot rolling the produced ingot at a temperature of about 900 ± 100 ° C. to 80% Annealing at about 1100 占 폚 300 占 폚 for about 48 hours in an atmosphere, followed by quenching.

Further, in order to control the microstructure size of the CrCoNi alloy subjected to the homogenization treatment, cold rolling to 50% or less of the original thickness and then annealing in an Ar atmosphere at about 900 占 폚 to 200 占 폚 for about 24 hours is further performed .

According to the present invention configured as described above, by controlling the ratio of the elements constituting the alloy to control the stacking defect energies, the composition range and the free energy change amount during the phase change are expressed as Cr _a Co _b Ni _c (a + b + c = 100 at.%, 1 a 40, 1 b 75, 15 c 50) and 19.1 a-55.9 b + 104.7 c-895.7 2750 to obtain an austenitic phase having an FCC crystal structure And increased instability. In this way, CrCoNi alloys with increased phase instability of austenitic phase have not only dislocation but also multinformation mechanism by twin formation and phase change according to temperature change, plastic deformation (TWIP) by forming twin according to stress, FCC → HCP phase change and other TRIP characteristics, and thus the mechanical properties are remarkably improved as compared with other commercial alloys.

In addition, the CrCoNi alloy of the present invention exhibits strength and elongation generally having an inverse trade-off due to the unique stress-response multimodal mechanism at room temperature, and exhibits the above-mentioned strain characteristics in accordance with the temperature change So that it is possible to determine an appropriate deformation mechanism by itself in accordance with the change in the surrounding environment and to show excellent mechanical characteristics. As a result, it can be applied not only as an offshore plant requiring high toughness and high strength at low temperature, but also as a structural material capable of coping with extreme environments, and also has excellent properties such as high temperature creep characteristics and high temperature strength, , And high-efficiency turbine blades for next-generation thermal power generation.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a diagram showing alloy compositions of Comparative Examples 1 and 2 and Examples 1 to 6 in austenite phase stable region within a 900C isothermal state diagram of a CrCoNi ternary alloy. FIG.
2 is a graph showing the free energy change (? G _{hcp- fcc} ) during phase transformation according to the temperature change with respect to the alloy compositions of Examples 1 to 6 of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a graph showing the free energy change (ΔG _{hcp- fcc} ) during phase transformation while changing the content of each element from 5 to 50 at.% Using a Calphad calculation in a CrCoNi ternary alloy.
Fig. 4 is a general formula obtained by linearly fitting the calculated value and the free energy change value (? G _{hcp- fcc} ) during the phase change obtained through Calphad calculation in the CrCoNi ternary alloy, And a change value (? G ' _{hcp- fcc} ) on the y-axis and the x-axis, respectively.
5 is a graph showing the results of X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis after homogenization heat treatment of Comparative Example 2 of the present invention and Examples 2, 4, and 6 alloys.
6 is an IPF map (Inverse pole figure map) result obtained by EBSD (Electron back scattering diffraction) measurement for (a) Comparative Example 2 of the present invention and (b) Example 3 alloy.
7 shows the tensile test results at room temperature for (a) Comparative Example 2 and (b) Example 3 of the present invention.
Fig. 8 is a graph showing the tensile test at room temperature (300 K) of the alloy of (a) Comparative Example 2 of the present invention, (b) Example 2 and (c) to be.
FIG. 9 is an IPF map, an image quality map, a phase map, and a mis-orientation graph obtained through EBSD measurement after deformation of the alloy of Example 3 of the present invention.
10 is a result of X-ray image analysis in real time under a tensile test at a low temperature (90 K) for the alloys of Example 2 (a) and (b) of Example 3 of the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The above and other features and advantages of the present invention will be more apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which: FIG. The present invention may be embodied in many different forms and is not limited to the embodiments described herein. In order to clearly illustrate the present invention, parts not related to the description are omitted, and the same reference numerals are used for the same or similar components throughout the specification. In the case of publicly known technologies, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Throughout the specification, when an element is referred to as "comprising ", it means that it can include other elements as well, without excluding other elements unless specifically stated otherwise.

The present invention relates to a method for controlling a deformation defect energy of a CrCoNi alloy to control the deformation mechanism to further improve mechanical properties, The present invention is to provide a ternary alloy of CrCoNi which constitutes a structure and exhibits TWIP characteristics under a stress and TRIP characteristics under an ε martensite phase and has excellent mechanical properties in which strength and elongation are improved at the same time. Herein, the FCC (Face Centered Cubic) phase and the γ austenite phase may be used in the same meaning, and the HCP (hexagonal close-packed) phase and the ε martensite phase may be used in the same meaning. In addition, since the stacking defect energy is dominantly influenced by the free energy change (? G _{hcp- fcc} ) at the phase change that changes from FCC to HCP phase, and since the two physical quantities are in a proportional relationship in the alloy system in which the composition is maintained at a similar level, In the following, it can be understood that the increase or decrease of the free energy change at the phase change increases or decreases the stacking defect energy, and the two concepts can be used in combination.

Alloy design and manufacturing

First, Cr, Co, and Ni, which are the three-period transition metal elements used in the present invention, have a similar interatomic size of less than 10% between each constituent element and a small mixed heat relation close to zero, so that a single austenite stabilization The station can be secured. The fraction of each element was determined by considering the stacking fault energy so that the twinning interface can be activated or phase change caused by environmental changes such as temperature change and stress change of the present alloy. At this time, this alloy predicts an alloy system with small free energy change (ΔG _{hcp- fcc} ) during phase change from γ austenite (FCC) to ε martensite (HCP) through Calphad calculation and first principle calculation, And the TWIP or TRIP behavior on the austenite can be easily made when the temperature change or the stress is applied.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a diagram showing alloy compositions of comparative examples and examples of the present invention in a 900C isothermal phase stable phase of a CrCoNi ternary alloy. FIG. As can be seen from the figure, it can be seen that the γ austenite phase forms a stable solid solution region in the total composition region containing less than about 40 at.% Cr, and in the above-mentioned region, Ni is contained at 15 at.% Or less Epsilon &lt; / RTI &gt; phase can be formed, it should be excluded from the scope of the claims. In addition, even in the case of a Co-rich composition containing Co at 75 at.% Or more, formation of an austenite phase such as formation of an epsilon phase is hindered, and therefore it is preferable not to be included in the scope of the present patent. In the present invention, as shown in the figure, the composition of Co and Ni is changed while keeping the composition ratio of Cr at 35 at.%, And the free energy change (ΔG _{hcp - fcc} ) was decreased or increased. At this time, as shown in the figure, when the Ni content of 50 at.% Or more including Comparative Examples 1 and 2 is included, the Ni-based alloy has too high a stacking defect energy, and thus is not included in the present invention. The above free energy change values were calculated by Thermo-Calc. Thermodynamic calculation program and SSOL 6 database which is most suitable for alloy solid solution calculation was used.

FIG. 2 is a graph showing free energy change according to the temperature calculated by the above method. At this time, it was confirmed that the laminated defect energy decreased remarkably as the Cr content was maintained at 35 at.% And the content of Co was increased. In each corresponding region, Dislocation → TWIP → TRIP (Single phase) → It can be seen that the main deformation mechanism is changed by TRIP (Dual phase). In addition, as can be seen in the drawing, since the stacking defect energy also changes in proportion to the temperature, it can be confirmed that the deformation mechanism of the same material may act differently depending on the ambient temperature change. At this time, the change in the stacking defect energy according to the temperature change means that even when a material having the same composition, optimal mechanical characteristics can be expressed by selectively determining the multi-strain mechanism according to the temperature change and performing the strain. Comparative Examples 1 and 2 and Examples 1 to 6 of the present invention were described in detail in Table 1 below.

division Cr (at.%) Co (at.%) Ni (at.%) ? GHCP-FCC (J / mol) Normal temperature deformation behavior Comparative Example 1 35 0 65 7734 Dislocation Comparative Example 2 35 10 55 5561 Dislocation Example 1 35 20 45 2736 TWIP Example 2 35 30 35 1907 TWIP Example 3 35 35 30 1135 TRIP Example 4 35 40 25 419 TRIP Example 5 35 45 20 -242 Dual phase Example 6 35 50 15 -846 Dual phase

At this time, in order to systematically compare the change of the stacking fault energy according to the fraction of the alloying element, the free energy change (? G _{hcp- fcc} ) according to the content of each element of the ternary alloy, And Table 2 below. When one element changes, the remaining elements have the same fraction, and the composition of each element is changed to 5 - 50 at.%, And when the elements are added with the fraction of the other elements fixed, And to confirm the effect on energy.

As can be seen from the figure, it can be seen that as the content of Cr and Ni increases, the stacking defect energy also increases, and it is also confirmed that the stacking defect energy decreases steeply as the content of Co changes. On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 1, when the Cr fraction reported to fail to form a single austenite region is deviated from the tendency as expected in the region of 40 at.% Or more. In this case, the free energy change (ΔG _{hcp- fcc} ) during the phase change can be predicted through a simple fitting equation in consideration of the contribution of each element based on the calculation results of Table 2, and the result is ΔG ' _{hcp- fcc} And is listed in Table 2 as well.

In this case, ΔG ' _{hcp- fcc} can be calculated as follows when the fractions of Cr, Co, and Ni are denoted by a, b, and c, respectively.

_{ΔG 'hcp -fcc = 19.1a-55.9b} + 104.7c-895.7

In addition, FIG. 4 compares ΔG ' _{hcp- fcc} calculated by the formula derived from the present invention with the free energy change (ΔG _{hcp- fcc} ) during the phase change predicted by Calphad calculation in Table 2, As can be seen, it has excellent linearity, and it can be seen that it exists in a region within a small error range. This means that it is possible to accurately and efficiently predict the free energy value during a phase change in a specific composition by using the ΔG ' _{hcp- fcc} formula derived from the present patent, and the free energy value during phase change of a specific composition is ΔG' _{hcp - fcc} , it means that there is no problem. However, in FIG. 4, it is also confirmed that the region of the region where the single austenite is difficult to form (more than 40 at.%) Tends to deviate from the above fitting equation because the Cr fraction is high. .

Composition (at.%) G _fcc
(J / mol) G _hcp (J / mol) ΔG _{hcp- fcc} (J / mol) ΔG ' _{hcp- fcc} (J / mol) Cr Co Ni Co 11 47.5 5 47.5 -5138.4 -96.0 5042.4 4704.5 12 45 10 45 -5376.6 -1017.8 4358.8 4115.5 13 42.5 15 42.5 -5564.2 -1956.5 3607.7 3526.4 14 40 20 40 -5703.1 -3374.3 3000.0 2937.4 15 37.5 25 37.5 -5797.6 -3374.3 2423.3 2348.4 16 35 30 35 -5850.7 -3943.3 1907.4 1759.3 17 32.5 35 32.5 -5864.7 -4613.0 1251.8 1170.3 18 30 40 30 -5841.7 -4823.7 1018.0 581.3 19 27.5 45 27.5 -5782.9 -5165.9 617.1 -7.8 20 25 50 25 -5690.7 -5521.3 169.4 -596.8 Ni 21 47.5 47.5 5 -3471.9 -5735.5 -2263.6 -2122.1 22 45 45 10 -3471.9 -5416.7 -1944.9 -1506.4 23 42.5 42.5 15 -4138.3 -5104.6 -966.3 -890.8 24 40 40 20 -4550.7 -4821.4 -270.7 -275.1 25 37.5 37.5 25 -5012.6 -4577.6 435.1 340.5 26 35 35 30 -5514.0 -4379.0 1135.0 956.2 27 32.5 32.5 35 -6042.7 -4229.5 1813.2 1571.9 28 30 30 40 -6585.0 -4131.0 2454.0 2187.5 29 27.5 27.5 45 -7126.4 -4089.4 3037.0 2803.2 30 25 25 50 -7652.0 -4114.0 3538.0 3418.8 Cr One 5 47.5 47.5 -9920.5 -9531.0 389.5 1517.5 2 10 45 45 -8604.4 -8027.6 576.9 1490.9 3 15 42.5 42.5 -7593.7 -6733.7 860.0 1464.3 4 20 40 40 -7052.5 -5692.9 1359.5 1437.6 5 25 37.5 37.5 -6672.7 -4944.7 1728.1 1411.0 6 30 35 35 -2929.4 -4499.4 1570.0 1384.4 7 35 32.5 32.5 -5681.2 -4167.1 1550.0 1357.8 8 40 30 30 -5101.8 -3869.8 1232.0 1331.1 9 45 27.5 27.5 -4491.3 -3607.6 883.7 1304.5 10 50 25 25 -3868.2 -3381.3 486.8 1277.9

The change of the free energy during the phase change is closely related to the decrease of the stacking defect energy in the material. Based on the above experimental results and calculation results, it was confirmed that TWIP behaviors as well as dislocation-based deformation were observed at room temperature when ΔG ' _{hcp- fcc} was less than 2750 J / mol (based on 300 K). When TRIP behavior is lowered to 120 J / mol (based on 300 K) as well as dislocation-based strain / TWIP when lowering the free energy change value during phase change to 1150 J / mol (300 K standard) And a possible dual phase microstructure was expressed. That is, when the value of the free energy change (? G _{hcp- fcc} ) upon phase change is greatly reduced and becomes? G ' _{hcp- fcc} of 120 J / mol or less, the stability of the ε martensite phase is improved, , And at the same time, the γ phase in the matrix is expected to exhibit TRIP deformation mechanism.

On the other hand, when at least one element selected from among additional elements such as C, N, Al, Ti, V, Cu, Zr, Nb and Mo known to exhibit characteristics such as solid solution strengthening or precipitation strengthening added to the FCC alloy By further including Cr in the CrCoNi alloy according to the present invention at 10 at.% Or less of the element, it is possible to improve the properties by solid solution strengthening or precipitation strengthening while maintaining the existing γ phase base structure. At this time, when the added elements are contained in an amount of 10 at.% Or more, the stability of the γ phase is largely changed and it is not preferable to realize the multi-stage deformation mechanism.

In order to investigate the effect of the free energy change (ΔG _{hcp- fcc} ) reduction on the material deformation behavior, Cr, Co and Ni constituting the alloy were prepared as parent elements with a purity of 99.9% Induction melting method with stirring effect, hot rolling at 900 ℃ for 50%, homogenization heat treatment at 1200 ℃ for 3 hours in Ar environment. In the present invention, since casting can realize a high temperature through an arc plasma in addition to an induction melting method, an arc melting method capable of rapidly forming a bulk solid homogeneous solid solution and minimizing impurities such as oxides and pores, It is possible to manufacture through a commercial casting process utilizing a resistance heating method which is possible. In addition to this, besides the commercial casting method in which the raw material metal can be dissolved, the raw material is made into powder or the like, and the powder metallurgy method is applied to the casting at a high temperature / high pressure by spark plasma sintering or hot isostatic pressing Sintering method. In the case of the sintering method, more precise microstructure control and manufacturing of parts having a desired shape can be easily performed. The homogenization treatment of the prepared specimen is carried out by hot rolling the ingot at a temperature of about 900 ± 100 ° C. to 80% or less, annealing it in an Ar atmosphere at about 1100 ± 300 ° C. for about 48 hours and quenching .

Then, cold rolling was performed so as to obtain a thickness reduction of 80% or more (single phase) or 50% (composite phase) in order to obtain an appropriate grain size (Grain size) (Single phase) or 800 ° C for 1 hour (composite phase) to make the crystal grains finer. The microstructure size control method of the homogenized CrCoNi alloy specimen is preferably 10% or more, followed by cold rolling, annealing in an Ar atmosphere at about 900 ± 200 ° C. for about 24 hours, and quenching.

FIG. 5 is a graph showing X-ray diffraction (XRD) results of Comparative Example 2 and Examples 2, 4 and 6 of the present invention prepared through the above process. As can be seen from the figure, it can be seen that the peaks of the single-phase FCC crystal structure at room temperature in Comparative Example 2, Example 2 and Example 4 have peaks. Also, in Example 6, which is expected to have the lowest stacking fault energy, it can be confirmed that even at room temperature without stress strain, it has a dual phase microstructure having both an FCC phase and an HCP crystal structure phase simultaneously .

6 is an IPF map (Inverse pole figure map) result obtained by EBSD (Electron back scattering diffraction) measurement for (a) Comparative Example 2 of the present invention and (b) Example 3 alloy. As can be seen from the figure, both specimens were grains homogenized appropriately, showing that an alloy of austenite of y austenite having an average grain size of 10 μm or less was produced. 5 and 6, it can be seen that the process conditions are temperature-stress-sensitive multi-stage deformations that exhibit the potential-based deformation / TWIP / TRIP (single phase) / TRIP It can be said that it is suitable for preparing a CrCoNi alloy having a mechanism.

Property analysis

7 shows the tensile test results of the CrCoNi alloys of (a) Comparative Example 2 and (b) Example 3 at room temperature. In the case of Comparative Example 2 in which deformation is caused by the movement of dislocation, the maximum elongation is about 42%, while the multi-stage deformation mechanism is performed at room temperature. The ultimate tensile strength (UTS) was increased and the maximum elongation was increased to about 60% as compared with Comparative Example 2. In addition, That is, it was confirmed that the mechanical strength was improved due to the development of the stress-sensitive multi-stage deformation mechanism according to the stress environment, and the elongation rate was also increased.

Hereinafter, it is confirmed that the mechanical characteristics can be improved through the stress-sensitive multi-stage deformation mechanism by comparing the results of the real-time structural analysis results of the modifications of the second and third embodiments of the present invention. 8 shows tensile stresses (a), (b) and (c) of the specimens of (a) Example 2 and (c) Example 3 using a real-time observation apparatus using X- As a result of the phase analysis with the approval, the analysis was continuously analyzed from the initial stage of the tensile (light color graph) to the stage where the final fracture occurred (dark color graph). First, in the case of (a) Comparative Example 2 where the stacking defect energy is high and deformation occurs only by dislocation, it is confirmed that there is no significant change in the FCC even if the material is greatly deformed so that the fracture occurs. That is, this means that the deformation behavior of the material is not due to the occurrence of a new crystallographic plane or phase, but only the dislocation moves and causes the entire deformation.

However, in the case of Example 2, as the strain progresses, it can be confirmed that the peak indicating the (200) plane of the FCC structure is remarkably decreased, and it is confirmed that a specific peak generated when the twin crystal is expressed grows have. That is, in the case of Example 2, it can be confirmed that a twinned surface is gradually formed in the austenite phase having the FCC crystal structure as the strain progresses. Such a stress-sensitive multi-stage deformation mechanism expression improves the strength and elongation of the material cause.

In the case of Example 3 in which the stacking fault energy is as low as 1135 J / mol, the peak indicating the (111) and (200) planes of the FCC crystal structure is remarkably decreased In addition, it can be confirmed that the specific peak generated when the twin crystal is expressed grows first, and the peak indicating the crystallographic plane of HCP grows sequentially. That is, in the case of Example 3, stress is applied to the material, and in the course of the deformation progressing to failure, the transformation mechanism is changed to the twin-based deformation through dislocation-based deformation, and finally a part of the material Martensite phase, and it is found that it contributes to improvement of mechanical properties by changing the deformation mechanism according to the stress condition. Further, the TWIP / TRIP characteristic is a phenomenon that occurs in an alloy having an FCC structure with a sufficiently small stacking defect energy. In particular, TRIP is a stress-induced martensite phase generated during deformation, and specifically, The torsional effect is more increased in the material due to the martensite phase formed on the surface, and the strength of the material is increased. By the new interface, dislocation of the dislocation is prevented, and work hardening and elongation of the material are further improved. The above experimental results can be supplemented by the improvement of the mechanical properties such as strength and elongation by the stress-sensitive multi-stage deformation mechanism of the alloys of the present invention shown in FIG.

9 is the EBSD measurement result (75 nm Step size) in the uniform elongation region (about 60% strain) after fracture of Example 3. Fig. It was confirmed that many deformations occurred in the Inverse Pole Figure map of FIG. 9 (a), but no twinning was observed in the crystal grains. However, it can be seen that in the IPF map of 200 to 300 nm or less through the fact that the misorientation of the boundaries shown on the Image quality map of Fig. 9 (b) is near 60 degrees (Fig. 9 (d) It was confirmed that many deformation twins exist at the interface. In addition, it was confirmed that austenite (red) and ε martensite (green) having the FCC structure coexist after the modification in the phase map of FIG. 9 (c). As a result, it was confirmed that the effect of the twinning organic plasticity and the transformation organic plasticity coexist in the modified specimen of the present invention. Therefore, in the third embodiment of the present invention, it is confirmed that the TWIP and TRIP are simultaneously realized according to the stress change.

Finally, FIG. 10 shows the results of the phase analysis of the specimens of (a) Example 2 and (b) Example 3, respectively, using X-ray real-time observation equipment in a low temperature (90 K) , Which is a continuous analysis from the initial stage of the tensile (light color graph) to the stage where the final fracture occurs (dark color graph). In this case, as shown in FIG. 2, it is known that the amount of free energy change upon phase change of a material generally decreases further as the temperature goes down. Thus, even when observed using an alloy having the same composition, The instrument may be further accelerated or may be changed to an alloy with other deformation mechanisms.

Actually, in the result (a) of Example 2, as the strain progresses at room temperature, the peak showing the (200) plane of the FCC structure becomes significantly smaller from the low stress condition, and a peak due to Twin can be confirmed. At this time, it can be seen that the size of the peak formed by TWIP is larger than that at room temperature, which can be considered as the material being sensitive to the ambient temperature change and further promoting TWIP as a suitable modification mechanism. The analysis of the phase change during low-temperature deformation of Example 3 shown in (b) shows that the austenite phase transformed into a martensite phase, and the degree of the austenite phase transformed to the martensite phase was further accelerated . That is, the above-mentioned result means that different multi-transformation mechanisms can operate at different stress conditions depending on temperature changes such as room temperature and high temperature in the case of the alloy composition of the present invention.

As described above, the present invention relates to a CrCoNi alloy which has an excellent mechanical property with improved strength and elongation by expressing a temperature-stress-sensitive multi-stage deformation mechanism by lowering the stacking defect energy while forming an alloy with three elements of Cr, Co and Ni . At this time, the stacking fault energy was predictable by Calphad calculation, and it was easily predictable through ΔG ' _hcp - _fcc = 19.1a - 55.9b + 104.7c - 895.7 derived from the fitting of the calculation results. As a result, it can be applied not only as an offshore plant requiring excellent toughness and high strength at low temperature, but also as a structural material capable of coping with extreme environments. Also, it can be used as a projectile propulsion unit requiring high temperature creep characteristics and high temperature strength through low lamination defect energy, It can be applied to high temperature and environment-friendly structural materials such as containers, cladding tubes, and turbine blades for high-efficiency next generation thermal power generation.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to preferred embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the appended claims. Those skilled in the art will understand. Therefore, the scope of protection of the present invention should be construed not only in the specific embodiments but also in the scope of claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of the same shall be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention.

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As the constituent elements are ternary alloy consisting CrCoNi which acts as a common _{solute, Cr a Co b Ni c (} a + b + c = 100 at.%, 1≤a≤40, 1≤b≤75, 15≤c ? 50) and 19.1a-55.9b + 104.7c-895.7? 2750.
Claim 1
Wherein at least one element selected from the group consisting of C, N, Al, Ti, V, Cu, Zr, Nb and Mo is added to the ternary alloy composed of CrCoNi in an amount of 10 at% Alloy with temperature - stress sensitive cascade deformation mechanism.
The method according to claim 1,
(A + b + c = 100 at.%, 1? A? 40, 1? B? 75, 15? C? 50) in the range of 19.1a-55.9b + 104.7c-895.7? 2750 Alloy with temperature - stress sensitive cascade deformation mechanism.
The method according to claim 1,
(A + b + c = 100 at.%, 1? A? 40, 1? B? 75, 15? C? 50) in the range of 19.1a-55.9b + 104.7c-895.7? Alloy with temperature - stress sensitive cascade deformation mechanism.
The method according to claim 1,
(A + b + c = 100 at.%, 1? A? 40, 1? B? 75, 15? C? 50) in the range of 19.1a-55.9b + 104.7c-895.7? 120 - Alloys with stress-sensitive multi-stage deformation mechanisms.
Preparing a raw material; And
And melting the raw material to produce a CrCoNi alloy,
The raw material _a Co _b Ni _c Cr and 19.1a-55.9b + 104.7c-895.7≤2750 ( a + b + c = 100 at.%, 1≤a≤40, 1≤b≤75, 15≤c &Lt; / = 50)
Wherein the free energy change (ΔG _{hcp- fcc} ) at the time of phase transformation into ε HCP phase on γ FCC is 2750 J / mol or less (Thermo-calc, SSOL 6 calculation standard) in the composition range. A method for producing an alloy having a stress sensitive multi-stage deformation mechanism.
The method of claim 6,
After the step of producing the CrCoNi alloy, the produced ingot is hot-rolled at a temperature of about 900 ± 100 ° C. to 80% or lower, annealed in an Ar atmosphere at about 1100 ± 300 ° C. for about 48 hours, and then subjected to homogenization treatment And a temperature-stress-responsive multi-stage deformation mechanism.
The method of claim 6,
Annealing at about 900 占 폚 to 200 占 폚 for about 24 hours in an Ar atmosphere after cold-rolling to 10% or more to control the microstructure size of the CrCoNi alloy subjected to the homogenization treatment. Method of manufacturing an alloy having a stress sensitive multi-stage deformation mechanism.
The method of claim 6,
Stress-responsive multi-stage deformation mechanism having a twin-induced plasticity (TWIP) characteristic, characterized in that the step ( _DELTA G _{hcp- fcc} ) is prepared to be 2750 J / mol or less.
The method of claim 6,
( _DELTA G _{hcp- fcc} ) is less than or equal to 1150 J / mol. The method of claim 1, wherein the temperature-stress responsive multi-stage deformation mechanism is TRIP.
The method of claim 6,
( _DELTA G _{hcp- fcc} ) of not more than 120 J / mol is prepared by using a temperature-stress-sensitive multi-stage deformation mechanism of a dual phase microstructure having TRIP (Transformation-induced Plasticity) Gt;

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