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Grain Refinement of a Powder Nickel-Base Superalloy Using Hot Deformation and Slow-Cooling
Xianqiang Fan1,2, Zhipeng Guo3,4, Xiaofeng Wang5,6
1School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. fxq16@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn.
Abstract:
A pre-hot-deformation process was applied for a polycrystalline nickel-base superalloy to active deformation twins and dislocations, and subsequent slow cooling treatment was used to achieve grain refinement and microstructure homogenization. The microstructural evolution of the alloy was investigated, and the corresponding underlying mechanism was discussed. It was found that twinning mainly occurred in large grains during pre-hot-deformation owing to the stress concentration surrounding the large grains. High density dislocations were found in large grains, and the dislocation density increased approaching the grain boundary. The average grain size was refined from 30 μm to 13 μm after slow cooling with a standard deviation of grain size decreasing from 10.8 to 2.8, indicating a homogeneous microstructure. The grain refinement and microstructure homogenization during cooling process could be achieved via (i) static recrystallization (SRX), (ii) interaction of twin tips and γ' precipitates, and (iii) grain coarsening hindered by γ' precipitates in grain boundaries.
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