@article {1411,
	title = {Direct measurements of slip irreversibility in a nickel-based superalloy using high resolution digital image correlation},
	journal = {Acta Materialia},
	volume = {186},
	year = {2020},
	pages = {172{\textendash}189},
	abstract = {<p>
	Fatigue crack nucleation in crystalline materials typically develops due to highly localized cyclic slip. During a fatigue cycle, reverse slip differs locally from slip in the forward direction particularly in precipitate-containing materials such as superalloys. In this paper we report the first direct measurements of irreversibility at the scale of individual slip bands by high-resolution digital image correlation (DIC) in a polycrystalline nickel-based superalloy. Quantitative measurements of the slip irreversibility are challenging for regions of material that have a size that captures the microstructure and its variability. High spatial resolution at the nanometer scale during experimental measurements is needed to observe slip localization during deformation. Moreover, large fields are also needed to obtain the material response over statistically representative populations of microstructural configurations. Recently, high resolution scanning electron microscope (SEM) digital image correlation (DIC) has been extended for quantitative analysis of discontinuities induced by slip events using the Heaviside-DIC method. This novel method provides quantitative measurements of slip localization at the specimen surface. In this paper, the Heaviside-DIC method is used to measure slip irreversibility and plastic strain accumulation in a nickel-based superalloy. The method detects bands with high levels of irreversibility early in cycling that ultimately form fatigue cracks upon further cycling. The local microstructural configurations that induce large amounts of plasticity and slip irreversibility are correlated to crack nucleation locations.
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},
	keywords = {Heaviside-digital image correlation, High resolution digital image correlation, Low cycle fatigue, Polycrystalline Ren{\'e} 88DT nickel-based superalloy, Scanning electron microscopy digital image correlation, Slip irreversibility, Strain localization and accumulation},
	issn = {13596454},
	doi = {10.1016/j.actamat.2019.12.009},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2019.12.009},
	author = {Stinville, J. C. and Callahan, P. G. and Charpagne, M. A. and Echlin, M. P. and Valle, V. and Pollock, T. M.}
}
@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 = {<p>
	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.
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},
	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}
}
