Sj. Zhu et al., HIGH-TEMPERATURE CREEP-BEHAVIOR OF SIC WHISKER-REINFORCED AL-FE-V-SI COMPOSITE, Materials science & engineering. A, Structural materials: properties, microstructure and processing, 215(1-2), 1996, pp. 120-124
Compression creep behavior of the 8009 alloy and SiC/8009 composite ha
s been investigated at the temperatures ranging from 573 to 723 K. The
addition of SiC whiskers in the 8009 alloy decreases creep rates by t
wo orders of magnitude. The stress and temperature dependence of creep
rates of the composite is similar to those of the 8009 alloy. Creep r
ates of the 8009 alloy and the composite are controlled by lattice dif
fusion of aluminum. The threshold stress for creep was used to analyze
the experimental data of the 8009 alloy and the composite.