The dislocation behaviour and GND development in a nickel based superalloy during creep
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Journal Article
Abstract
In the current study, dislocation activity and storage during creep deformation in a nickel based superalloy (Waspaloy) were investigated, focussing on the storage of geometrically necessary (GND) and statistically stored (SSD) dislocations. Two methods of GND density calculation were used, namely, EBSD Hough Transformation and HR-EBSD Cross Correlation based methods. The storage of dislocations, including SSDs, was investigated by means of TEM imaging. Here, the concept of GND accumulation in soft and hard grains and the effect of neighbouring grain orientation on total dislocation density was examined. Furthermore, the influence of applied stress (below and above the yield stress of Waspaloy) during creep on deformation micro-mechanism and dislocation density was studied. It was demonstrated that soft grains provided pure shear conditions on at least two octahedral (111) slip systems for easy dislocation movement. This allowed dislocations to reach the grain boundary without significant geometrically necessary dislocation accumulation in the centre of the grain. Hence, the majority of the soft grains appeared to have minimum GND density in the centre of the grain with high GND accumulation in the vicinity of the grain boundaries. However, the values and width of accumulated GND depended on the surrounding grain orientations. Furthermore, it was shown that the hard grains were not favourably oriented for octahedral slip system activation leading to a grain rotation in order to activate any of the available slip systems. Eventually, (i) the hard grain resistance to deformation and (ii) neighbouring grain resistance for the hard grain reorientation caused high GND density on a number of octahedral (111) slip systems. The results also showed that during creep below the yield stress of Waspaloy (500 MPa/700 °C), the GND accumulation was relatively low due to the insufficient macroscopic stress level. However, the regions near grain boundaries showed high GND density. At 800 MPa/700 °C (above yield at this temperature), in addition to the movement of pre-existing dislocations (SSD and GND) at a higher mobility rate, large numbers of dislocations were generated and moved toward the grain boundaries. This resulted in a much higher GND density but narrower width of high intensity GNDs near the grain boundaries. It is concluded that although GND measurement by means of EBSD can provide great insight into dislocation accumulation and its behaviour, it is critical to consider SSD type which also contributes to the strain hardening of the material.
Date Issued
2019-07-01
Date Acceptance
2019-02-11
Citation
International Journal of Plasticity, 2019, 118, pp.252-268
ISSN
0749-6419
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
252
End Page
268
Journal / Book Title
International Journal of Plasticity
Volume
118
Copyright Statement
Crown Copyright © 2019 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Sponsor
Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials (BIAM)
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Grant Number
N/A
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Engineering, Mechanical
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Mechanics
Engineering
Materials Science
EBSD
Dislocation
GND
Nickel
Superalloy
Creep
TKD
ELECTRON BACKSCATTER DIFFRACTION
TRANSMISSION KIKUCHI DIFFRACTION
STRAIN-GRADIENT PLASTICITY
DEFORMATION MICROMECHANISM
SCATTER DIFFRACTION
GRAIN-BOUNDARIES
LOCAL TEXTURE
MICROSTRUCTURE
EVOLUTION
PATTERNS
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2019-02-21