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Experimental Calibration & Multi-scale Simulation of Multi-modal γ′ Precipitation in Nickel Superalloys During Continuous Cooling

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The precipitation of a recently introduced γ′-strengthened, Powder Metallurgy (PM) nickel superalloy is characterized and modeled. A range of experimental techniques are employed to capture aspects of the alloy microstructure necessary to calibrate a supersolvus, continuous cooling precipitation model. The proposed precipitation model framework incorporates a computationally efficient addition to the classical mean-field modeling approach that increases its ability to model dynamic, multi-modal γ′ burst events. The γ′ size predicted by the model shows good agreement with the experimental results spanning several orders of cooling rate magnitudes. The scalability of the modeling framework is then demonstrated in a quench trial on a diskette made from another PM nickel superalloy. The precipitation calculation is applied to the element integration points of a continuum Finite Element (FE) heat conduction simulation, where the latent heat generated from the precipitate evolution is accounted for. The results are compared to experimental findings using embedded thermocouple measurements and indicate that this approach is suitable for quantifying effects of γ′ precipitate evolution at the meso-scale and continuum length scales.

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge GE Aviation for its financial support on this program. NJK acknowledges Jeffrey Williams for his editorial and technical support. NJK and TH acknowledge Ian Spinelli for his EBSD characterization support. NJK and JM acknowledge Dan Huber for his FIB Serial Sectioning consultation support. NJK acknowledges Yan Gao of GE Research and Yang Ren of APS for their beamline characterization support provided under GUP-63460. This research used resources of the Advanced Photon Source, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.

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    Nicholas J. Krutz

  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, 2041 College Rd, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

    Nicholas J. Krutz, Carolin Fink, Jiashi Miao, Wei Zhang, Boian Alexandrov & Michael J. Mills

  3. GE Research, 1 Research Circle, Niskayuna, NY, 12309, USA

    Chen Shen & Timothy Hanlon

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Krutz, N.J., Shen, C., Fink, C. et al. Experimental Calibration & Multi-scale Simulation of Multi-modal γ′ Precipitation in Nickel Superalloys During Continuous Cooling. Metall Mater Trans A 52, 3122–3139 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-021-06307-4

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