Quench Crack Behavior of Nickel-base Disk Superalloys

Author:: Kantzos, Pete
Published:: November 2002.
Physical Description:: 1 electronic document
Additional Creators:: Gayda, John and Miller, Jason

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There is a need to increase the temperature capability of superalloy turbine disks to allow higher operating temperatures in advanced aircraft engines. When modifying processing and chemistry of disk alloys to achieve this capability, it is important to preserve the ability to use rapid cooling during supersolvus heat treatments to achieve coarse grain, fine gamma prime microstructures. An important step in this effort is an understanding of the key variables controlling the cracking tendencies of nickel-base disk alloys during quenching from supersolvus heat treatments. The objective of this study was to investigate the quench cracking tendencies of several advanced disk superalloys during simulated heat treatments. Miniature disk specimens were rapidly quenched after solution heat treatments. The responses and failure modes were compared and related to the quench cracking tendencies of actual disk forgings. Cracking along grain boundaries was generally observed to be operative. For the alloys examined in this study, the solution temperature not alloy chemistry was found to be the primary factor controlling quench cracking. Alloys with high solvus temperatures show greater tendency for quench cracking.

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Metals and Metallic Materials

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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.

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Document ID: 20030003787.
NASA/TM-2002-211984.
E-13654.
NAS 1.15:211984.

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