Temperature effects on fatigue thresholds and structure sensitive crack growth in a nickel-base superalloy |
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Authors: | M.A. Hicks J.E. King |
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Affiliation: | 1. Lecturer in the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, University of Nottingham, UK;2. Dr M.A. Hicks is a Senior Metallurgist at Rolls-Royce Dr J. E. King is a Lecturer in the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, University of Nottingham, UK |
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Abstract: | Fatigue thresholds and slow crack growth rates have been measured in a powder formed nickel-base superalloy from room temperature to 600°C. Two grain sizes were investigated: 5–12 μm and 50 μm. It is shown that the threshold increases with grain size, and the difference is most pronounced at room temperature. Although crack growth rates increase with temperature in both microstructures, the threshold is only temperature dependent in the material with the larger grain size. It is also only in the latter that the room temperature threshold falls when the load ratio is increased from 0.1 to 0.5. At 600°C the higher load ratio causes a 20% reduction in the threshold irrespective of grain size.The results are discussed in terms of surface roughness and oxide-induced crack closure, the former being critically related to the type of crystallographic crack growth, which is in turn shown to be both temperature and stress intensity dependent. |
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Keywords: | fatigue fatigue thresholds fatigue crack growth temperature effects grain size nickel-base superalloys crack closure |
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