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 be directly used to model properties being targeted by the end user, e.g. TTT/CCT diagrams, mechanical properties, thermophysical and physical properties. To overcome these limitations a new computer programme has been developed, called JMatPro, an acronym for Java-based Materials Properties software. The properties which can be calculated are wide ranging, including thermo-physical and physical properties (from room temperature to the liquid state), TTT/CCT diagrams, stress/strain diagrams, proof and tensile stress, hardness, coarsening of and and creep.