Microstructural Investigations of Ni-Based Superalloys by Directional Solidification Quenching Technique

Microstructural aspects of fatigue in Ni-base superalloys.

Nickel-base superalloys are primarily used as components in jet engines and land-based turbines. While compositionally complex, they are microstructurally simple, consisting of small (50-1000 nm diameter), ordered, coherent Ni(3)(Al,Ti)-type L1(2) or Ni(3)Nb-type DO(22) precipitates (called γ(') and γ(''), respectively) embedded in an FCC substitutional solid solution consisting primarily of Ni...

Directional Solidification Microstructure of a Ni-Based Superalloy: Influence of a Weak Transverse Magnetic Field

A Ni-based superalloy CMSX-6 was directionally solidified at various drawing speeds (5–20 μm·s−1) and diameters (4 mm, 12 mm) under a 0.5 T weak transverse magnetic field. The results show that the application of a weak transverse magnetic field significantly modified the solidification microstructure. It was found that if the drawing speed was lower than 10 μm·s−1, the magnetic field caused ex...

MODELLING THE MATERIAL PROPERTIES AND BEHAVIOUR OF Ni-BASED SUPERALLOYS

At the last two Superalloy meetings at Seven Springs, work on the development of thermodynamic modelling tools for application to multi-component Ni-based superalloys has been presented. Such modelling has become quite widespread, providing significant benefit. However, its applicability often falls short from directly providing the information that is actually required and, by itself, cannot b...

Afrl-rx-wp-tp-2011-4115 Technique for Automated Extraction of Symmetric Microstructural Features:application to Dendritic Cores in Single Crystal Ni-based Superalloys

Serial sectioning methods continue to produce a wealth of image data for quantifying the three-dimensional nature of material microstructures. In this work, we discuss a computational methodology for automated detection and 3D characterization of dendrite cores from images taken from slices of a production turbine blade made of a heat-treated single crystal Ni-based superalloy. The dendrite cor...

Microstructure-Property Relationship in Advanced Ni-Based Superalloys