TY - JOUR A1 - Agudo Jácome, Leonardo A1 - Göbenli, G. A1 - Eggeler, G. ED - Göken, M. T1 - Transmission electron microscopy study of the microstructural evolution during high-temperature and low-stress (011) [01-1] shear creep deformation of the superalloy single crystal LEK 94 JF - Journal of Materials Research N2 - The present work describes the shear creep behavior of the superalloy LEK 94 at temperatures between 980 and 1050 °C and shear stresses between 50 and 140 MPa for loading on the macroscopic crystallographic shear system (MCSS) (011)[01-1]. The strain rate versus strain curves show short primary and extended secondary creep regimes. We find an apparent activation energy for creep of Qapp = 466 kJ/mol and a Norton-law stress exponent of n = 6. With scanning transmission electron microscopy, we characterize three material states that differ in temperature, applied stress, and accumulated strain/time. Rafting develops perpendicular to the maximum principal stress direction, gamma channels fill with dislocations, superdislocations cut gamma' particles, and dislocation networks form at gamma/gamma' interfaces. Our findings are in agreement with previous results for high-temperature and low-stress [001] and [110] tensile creep testing, and for shear creep testing of the superalloys CMSX-4 and CMSX-6 on the MCSSs (111)[01-1] and (001)[100]. The parameters that characterize the evolving gamma/gamma' microstructure and the evolving dislocation substructures depend on creep temperature, stress, strain, and time. KW - Dislocations KW - Microstructure KW - Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) KW - Creep KW - Shear test PY - 2017 DO - https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2017.336 SN - 0884-2914 SN - 2044-5326 VL - 32 IS - 24 SP - 4491 EP - 4502 PB - Cambridge University Press CY - Cambrigde AN - OPUS4-43756 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Agudo Jácome, Leonardo A1 - Pöthkow, K. A1 - Paetsch, O. A1 - Hege, H.-C. T1 - Three-dimensional reconstruction and quantification of dislocation substructures from transmission electron microscopy stereo pairs JF - Ultramicroscopy N2 - A great amount of material properties is strongly influenced by dislocations, the carriers of plastic deformation. It is therefore paramount to have appropriate tools to quantify dislocation substructures with regard to their features, e.g., dislocation density, Burgers vectors or line direction. While the transmission electron microscope (TEM) has been the most widely-used equipment implemented to investigate dislocations, it usually is limited to the two-dimensional (2D) observation of three-dimensional (3D) structures. We reconstruct, visualize and quantify 3D dislocation substructure models from only two TEM images (stereo pairs) and assess the results. The reconstruction is based on the manual interactive tracing of filiform objects on both images of the stereo pair. The reconstruction and quantification method are demonstrated on dark field (DF) scanning (S)TEM micrographs of dislocation substructures imaged under diffraction contrast conditions. For this purpose, thick regions (> 300 nm) of TEM foils are analyzed, which are extracted from a Ni-base superalloy single crystal after high temperature creep deformation. It is shown how the method allows 3D quantification from stereo pairs in a wide range of tilt conditions, achieving line length and orientation uncertainties of 3% and 7°, respectively. Parameters that affect the quality of such reconstructions are discussed. KW - Dislocation KW - Diffraction contrast KW - Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) KW - Stereoscopy KW - Visualization PY - 2018 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2018.08.015 SN - 0304-3991 VL - 195 SP - 157 EP - 170 PB - Elsevier B.V. CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-46355 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lueck, S. A1 - Kupsch, Andreas A1 - Lange, Axel A1 - Hentschel, Manfred P. A1 - Schmidt, V. T1 - Statistical comparison of various reconstruction algorithms with respect to missing wedge artifacts in computed tomography JF - Materials research society symposium proceedings N2 - The presence of elongation, streak and blurring artifacts in tomograms recorded under a missing wedge of rotation angles presents a major challenge for the quantitative analysis of tomographic image data. We show that the missing wedge artifacts of standard reconstruction algorithms may be reduced by the innovative reconstruction technique DIRECTT. For the comparison of missing wedge artifacts we apply techniques from spatial statistics, which have been specifically designed to investigate the shape of phase boundaries in tomograms. KW - X-ray tomography KW - Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) KW - Structural PY - 2012 DO - https://doi.org/10.1557/opl.2012.209 SN - 0272-9172 VL - 1421 SP - 1 EP - 6 PB - North-Holland Publ. Co. CY - New York, NY AN - OPUS4-25468 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -