SUPERALLOYS

METE 327
Fall, 2008

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 OUTLINE

Historical perspective

Applications

Compositions

Processes

Properties
Creep

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 Applications

Gas Turbine Engines

Blades, vanes, disks, combustors

Space Vehicles
Rocket motors

Nuclear Reactors

Submarines

Petroleum Equipment

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 Compositions

Ni, Co and Fe Based Alloys

Solid solution strengthening

Cr, Mo, Al, Nb, Ti and others

Precipitation strengthening
Mostly due to Al and Ti
Ni3(Al,Ti), gamma prime
Lattice mismatch, amount, size and morphology

Carbide phases
M23C6, M6C or MC
M can be Cr, Ti, Mo or W
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 Astroloy Microstructure (orig. 15 K X)

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 CREEP

Deformation at high temperature under

constant load

Important property of Superalloys

Brief discussion now, more next time

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 Engineering Design Using Creep (and Stress-Rupture)

The Larson-Miller Parameter:

Stress Rupture Data Plotted

according to the following
equation:

Where M = log e

and = t exp (-Q/RT)

assuming that Q and are functions of stress only. t can be a

time to rupture or a time to a given creep strain.

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 Assignment

Please email me a question about superalloys

before Monday, 17 November

jacobsonla@att.net

More about creep next time, and Materials

Selection for Design

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