High Temperature Rupture Life of Nickel-Based Superalloy under Directional Solidification with High Temperature Gradient

Abstract:

The stress rupture life of DZ125 nickel-based superalloy that was prepared by directional solidification process under the temperature gradient of 500 K/cm has been studied at 900°C and 235MPa. The results showed that with the increase of directional solidification rate from 50 μm/s to 800 μm/s, the primary dendrite arm spacing reduced from 94 μm to 35.8 μm and γ' precipitates reduced and more uniformed in size. The high temperature stress rupture life of as-cast sample increased firstly and then decreased and reached its maximum at the solidification rate of 500 μm/s. The dislocation configuration of sample with refine dendritic structure after stress rupture was investigated and discovered that the dislocations in different parts of sample had different morphology and density, which indicated that the deformation of as-cast samples were uneven during high temperature stress rupture. A lot of dislocations intertwined around carbides and at the interface of γ/γ', and the dislocation networks were destroyed and the dislocations entered γ' precipitate by the way of cutting.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 898)
• Pages: 422-429
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.898.422
• Online since: June 2017
• Authors: Wei Guo Zhang*, Zhi Jie Liu, Song Ke Feng, Fu Zeng Yang, Lin Liu
• Keywords: Directional Solidification, Dislocation Configuration, High Temperature Gradient, High Temperature Stress Rupture Life, Nickel-Base Superalloy

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