Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 179, Issue -, Pages 342-359Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2019.08.005
Keywords
Fatigue crack growth; Microstructure; Polycrystalline material; Tomography; High-energy X-ray diffraction microscopy; Reciprocal space mapping
Funding
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research, United States [FA9550-14-1-0284]
- Rolls-Royce Corporation, United States
- US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- Materials & Manufacturing Directorate of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
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The small fatigue crack (SFC) growth regime in polycrystalline alloys is complex due to the heterogeneity in the local micromechanical fields, which result in high variability in crack propagation directions and growth rates. In this study, we employ a suite of techniques, based on high-energy synchrotron-based Xray experiments that allow us to track a nucleated crack, propagating through the bulk of a Ni-based superalloy specimen during cyclic loading. Absorption contrast tomography is used to resolve the intricate 3D crack morphology and spatial position of the crack front. Initial near-field high-energy X-ray diffraction microscopy (HEDM) is used for high-resolution characterization of the grain structure, elucidating grain orientations, shapes, and boundaries. Cyclic loading is periodically interrupted to conduct far-field HEDM to determine the centroid position, average orientation, and average lattice strain tensor for each grain within the volume of interest. Reciprocal space analysis is used to further examine the deformation state of grains that plasticize in the vicinity of the crack. Analysis of the local micro-mechanical state in the grains ahead of the crack front is used to rationalize the advancing small crack path and growth rate. Specifically, the most active slip system in a grain, determined by the maximum resolved shear stress, aligns with the crack growth direction; and the degree of microplasticity ahead of the crack tip helps to identify directions for potential occurrences of crack arrest or propagation. The findings suggest that both the slip system level stresses and microplasticity events within grains are necessary to get a complete description of the SFC progression. Further, this detailed dataset, produced by a suite of X-ray characterization techniques, can provide the necessary validation, at the appropriate length-scale, for SFC models. (C) 2019 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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