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The evolution of grain-boundary cracking evaluated through in situ tensile-creep testing of Udimet alloy 188

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

C.J. Boehlert*
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
S.C. Longanbach
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
M. Nowell
Affiliation:
EDAX-TSL, Inc., Draper, Utah 84020
S. Wright
Affiliation:
EDAX-TSL, Inc., Draper, Utah 84020
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a) Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

In situ scanning electron microscopy was performed during elevated-temperature (⩽760 °C) tensile-creep deformation of a face-centered-cubic cobalt-based Udimet 188 alloy to characterize the deformation evolution and, in particular, the grain boundary-cracking evolution. In situ electron backscatter diffraction observations combined with in situ secondary electron imaging indicated that general high-angle grain boundaries were more susceptible to cracking than low-angle grain boundaries and coincident site-lattice boundaries. The extent of general high-angle grain-boundary cracking increased with increasing creep time. Grain-boundary cracking was also observed throughout subsurface locations as observed for postdeformed samples. The electron backscattered diffraction orientation mapping performed during in situ tensile-creep deformation proved to be a powerful means for characterizing the surface deformation evolution and in particular for quantifying the types of grain boundaries that preferentially cracked.

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