@conference {1606, title = {Role of Non-metallic Inclusions and Twins on the Variability in Fatigue Life in Alloy 718 Nickel Base Superalloy}, booktitle = {Superalloys 2020}, year = {2020}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, organization = {Springer International Publishing}, abstract = {
Non-metallic inclusions (NMIs) and slip bands parallel to and slightly offset from twin boundaries are observed to be preferential sites for fatigue crack nucleation in wrought superalloys. Potential interactions between NMI cracking and slip activity within neighboring grains or at twin boundaries were investigated under monotonic tensile loading (up to 1.3\% total strain) at room temper- ature. High resolution- and Heaviside-digital image correlation measurements were performed during inter- rupted tensile loading to identify strain localization, associated slip systems, and damage initiation. Different mechanisms and scenarios were identified: (1) Microplas- ticity generally starts at twin boundaries even at stresses as low as 70\% of the macroscopic yield strength, (2) transgranular slip activity intensively develops above the macroscopic yield stress, (3) intense slip activity develops near and parallel to 21\% of the twin boundaries intercepting NMIs, (4) 7\% of the twin boundaries inter- cepting NMIs lead to slip-assisted NMI cracking, (5) no transgranular slip activity participates in NMI cracking, (6) the fraction of cracked NMIs progressively increases with the load, and (7) within the NMIs that initiated cracks, 67\% cracked below 90\% of the macroscopic yield strength without the presence of slip activity in the neighboring grains. While slip-assisted NMI cracking was evidenced in the present study, most NMI cracking is due to strain incompatibility between NMIs and neighboring grains at the high end of the elastic regime without slip interaction.
}, keywords = {fatigue, High Resolution-Digital Image Correlation (HR-DIC), In-situ tensile testing, Non-metallic inclusions (NMIs), Twin boundary}, isbn = {9783030518349}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-51834-9}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51834-9_65}, author = {Texier, Damien and Stinville, Jean-Charles and Charpagne, Marie-agathe and Chen, Zhe and Valle, Valery and Villechaise, Patrick and Pollock, Tresa M. and Cormier, Jonathan}, editor = {Tin, Sammy and Hardy, Mark and Clews, Justin and Cormier, Jonathan and Feng, Qiang and Marcin, John and O{\textquoteright}Brien, Chris and Suzuki, Akane} } @article {1496, title = {Short crack propagation from cracked non-metallic inclusions in a Ni-based polycrystalline superalloy}, journal = {Acta Materialia}, volume = {165}, year = {2019}, pages = {241{\textendash}258}, abstract = {Fatigue cracks initiating from surface and sub-surface non-metallic inclusions (NMIs) have recently been demonstrated to be a necessary but not sufficient explanation for atypically short low-cycle fatigue life in Inconel 718 alloy at intermediate temperature. Therefore, the early stages of short crack propagation from surface NMIs were investigated in a crystallographic and two-dimensional versus three-dimensional morphological manner after room temperature low cycle fatigue (LCF) testing. In the present investigation, NMIs were purposely pre-cracked using different techniques to suppress the natural crack initiation period and thus the incubation period prior to the early stages of crack propagation. Under such fatigue testing conditions, different mechanisms of crack transmission from pre-cracked NMIs were identified: (i) no propagation, (ii) NMI/adjacent metallic grain interfacial debonding, (iii) transgranular crack propagation within the adjacent metallic grain. Focused-ion-beam cross-section observations of numerous fatigue tested NMIs aimed to define a morphological criterion for non-propagating NMIs. Large cracked NMIs at the surface (2c) with limited extension into the depth (a) did not propagate under such fatigue conditions for 2c/a ratio higher than 3. Furthermore, specific crystallographic relationships between NMIs and the adjacent metallic grain explained different crack propagation configurations from pre-cracked NMIs, i.e. interfacial debonding and transgranular crack propagation involving single or multiple-slip activity.
}, keywords = {Focus-ion-beam cross-section (FIB-cross section), Low cycle fatigue, Non-metallic inclusions, Short crack propagation, Superalloy 718DA}, issn = {13596454}, doi = {10.1016/j.actamat.2018.11.051}, author = {Texier, Damien and Stinville, Jean Charles and Echlin, Mclean P. and Pierret, St{\'e}phane and Villechaise, Patrick and Pollock, Tresa M. and Cormier, Jonathan} } @article {texier2016microstructural, title = {Microstructural features controlling the variability in low-cycle fatigue properties of alloy Inconel 718DA at intermediate temperature}, journal = {Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A}, volume = {47}, number = {3}, year = {2016}, pages = {1096{\textendash}1109}, publisher = {Springer US}, author = {Texier, Damien and G{\'o}mez, Ana Casanova and Pierret, St{\'e}phane and Franchet, Jean-Michel and Pollock, Tresa M and Villechaise, Patrick and Cormier, Jonathan} }