Research on novel cast and wrought superalloy FGH4096 for aircraft turbine disk applications

The ingot metallurgy of electro- slag remelting continuous directional solidification(ESR- CDS) followed by multiple forging and isothermal forging, a novel cast and wrought(C&W) routes for preparation of FGH4096 turbine disk, was developed to solve the difficulties of microstructure controlling, the macro- segregation, poor processing of ingot with high alloying element used for the turbine disk of advanced aircraft engine. From aspects of ingot microstructure characteristics, hot working plasticity, microstructure controlling, mechanical properties and strengthening mechanisms, the preparing processes of C & W superalloy FGH96 turbine disk were studied. The formation of bulk ?? phase, borides phase and carbonitride strips can be avoided by the directionally solidified ingot, which resulted in excellent hot working plasticity. Multiple forging was applied to achieve the homogeneity of microstructure. The grains are fine in different parts of the billet, and the deformation dead zone can be eliminated. The mean grain size for alloy billet is close to ASTM 9-10. Because of the fine grains and the homogeneity of microstructure, the ultra- inspection capability for disk forging can be significantly improved. With the increase of solution temperature, the yield strength decreases. Under sub- solvus temperatures, the creep resistance decreases with the increase of solution cooling rate. The micro- twining shearing is the main creep deformation mechanism for the samples from disk rim.