Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 90, Issue -, Pages 355-369Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2015.02.023
Keywords
Environmental effects; RR1000; Dwell fatigue crack growth; Micromechanisms of crack growth; Grain boundary oxidation
Funding
- UK Technology Strategy Board
- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research council (EPSRC)
- Rolls-Royce plc
- EPSRC [EP/H500375/1, EP/H500367/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/H500375/1, EP/H500367/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The influence of microstructure on the dwell fatigue crack growth behaviour of an advanced nickel-based superalloy was investigated at a temperature of 700 degrees C. Microstructural variations were induced by heat treatment variables: different cooling rates of quenching from super-solvus solution heat treatment, 0.7 and 1.8 degrees C s(-1), and an addition of a high temperature stabilisation heat treatment (2 h at 857 degrees C) between the solution treatment and the final ageing treatment. With a one hour dwell introduced at the peak load of the fatigue cycle, such different microstructural conditions can lead to a difference of up to two orders of magnitude in crack growth rates in air, when compared to those obtained under baseline fatigue loading. By performing such dwell fatigue and baseline fatigue tests in vacuum, it is confirmed that such increases in crack growth rates under dwell fatigue loading in air are mainly environmentally related. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) was utilised to analyse both crack tip oxides and associated deformation mechanisms in the matrix. A novel mechanism talcing into account competing interactions of crack tip oxidation (leading to increases in crack growth rates) and stress relaxation (leading to decreases in crack growth rates) is outlined. (C) 2015 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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