ISSN:
1460-2695
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
Notes:
The Low Cycle Fatigue (LCF) life of PM Ni-base superalloys is commonly reduced by surface crack initiation at ceramic inclusions. For this reason, a probabilistic model has been developed that predicts the size of surface crack initiation sites from the inclusion size distribution. For the experimental correlation of the model two sets of alloys were examined: a “standard” (i.e. as-received) alloy, and a second material of identical composition to which a known distribution of ceramic inclusions was incorporated (or seeded). Model predictions were found to be in excellent agreement with the results obtained from the seeded materials in which the defect size distribution is larger and better characterized, and were satisfactory for the unseeded material in which two types of surface defects (pores and ceramic inclusions) initiate LCF cracks. The results of these experiments were employed in LCF simulations of both test specimens and full scale components. These indicated that differences exist between the site preference for LCF crack initiation in small test specimens and large scale components due to a scale effect. Such results demonstrate the utility of seeding experiments for generation of LCF test data used in component design.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2695.1993.tb00125.x
