Introduction ................................................................................................................................1 Overview of Weldability of Nickel-Base Superalloys..................................................................1 Crystallography............................................................................................................................

Friction stir welding (FSW) of titanium alloy was carried out using liquid cooling the FSW tool made heat-resistant nickel superalloy. Cooling superalloy performed by means circulating water inside tool. The joints were characterized microstructures and mechanical strength. strength higher than that base metal.

In this paper the TMF crack initiation behaviour of the single-crystal nickel-base superalloy MD2 is investigated and modelled. TMF tests were performed in both IP and OP for varying mechanical strain ranges in the [001] crystallographic direction until TMF crack initiation was obtained. A crystal plasticity-creep model was used in conjunction with a critical-plane approach, to evaluate the num...

Reticulated nickel foams were alloyed with 8–9 wt% Al or 14–18 wt% Cr and 5–9 wt% Al in a three-step method consisting of (i) gas-phase deposition of Cr and/or Al onto the struts of a pure Ni foam by pack-cementation at 1000 C; (ii) homogenization at 1200 C to remove concentration gradients and to solutionize the alloyed struts; (iii) aging at 900 C to form c0 precipitates within the struts. Th...

Single crystal material, of CMSX-4® alloy composition, was cast and secondary orientation controlled at the machining stage, to produce c-ring cross-section tubes with known crystallographic orientations. The were coated NaCl before being subject loading up 700MPa heated for durations 2 hrs 550°C in flowing environments containing air SO2.No cracking observed short term tests that run absence e...