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Influence of Rare Earth Additions to an Inconel 718 Alloy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2020

Luis E. Gonzalez A. ,
Arnoldo Bedolla-Jacuinde ,
Francisco V. Guerra  and
A. Ruiz
Luis E. Gonzalez A.
Affiliation:
Instituto de Investigaciones en Metalurgia y Materiales, Universidad michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, México.
Arnoldo Bedolla-Jacuinde*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Investigaciones en Metalurgia y Materiales, Universidad michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, México.
Francisco V. Guerra
Affiliation:
Instituto de Investigaciones en Metalurgia y Materiales, Universidad michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, México.
A. Ruiz
Affiliation:
Instituto de Investigaciones en Metalurgia y Materiales, Universidad michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, México.
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*Corresponding author: [email protected]
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Abstract

This work analyzes the effect of rare earth additions to an Inconel 718 superalloy; for this purpose, two 8 kg ingots of a commercial composition of Inconel 718 were made in a vacuum induction furnace. One of them (In718) with the base composition and the other one (In718RE) with an addition of 0.04wt% of mischmetal (rare earths alloy based on cerium and lanthanum). Both alloys were cast into metallic molds into the vacuum chamber and let to solidify. The alloys were then solubilized for two hours at 1155 °C to eliminate deleterious phases, rolled at 1100 °C to get a reduction of 50% in thickness, then aged for 16 hours at 720 °C and 620 °C by 8 hours each. A complete microstructural characterization was undertaken by optical and electronic (SEM and TEM) microscopy and X-ray diffraction. Mechanical characterization was done by hardness tests, tensile and Charpy impact tests. Results show a slight improvement of the tensile and hardness values for the alloy with rare earth additions. However, no notorious difference was observed during the impact tests, since both alloys show the same values. These mechanical results are discussed in terms of the obtained microstructure. Both alloys are mainly composed by γ, γ´, γ´´ and carbides. It was observed that primary carbides nucleate rare earth particles; therefore, higher number of carbides and of larger size (according to a size distribution) are observed in the alloy with rare earth additions. The presence of such carbides prevents the grain growth during the thermomechanical processing which in turn improve the mechanical properties.

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MRS Advances , Volume 5 , Issue 59-60: International Materials Research Congress XXIX , 2020 , pp. 3035 - 3043
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