Assessment of microstructure and property of a service exposed turbine blade made of K417 superalloy

Bingxue Wang, Chan Wang, Duoqi Shi*, Xiaoguang Yang, Zhenlei Li

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Abstract

In this paper, a turbine blade made of K417 nickel-based superalloy after service for 600 hours was investigated, the microstructural features were identified through metallographic observation, the size of γ′ precipitates was adopted to quantitatively characterize the coarsening behavior, decomposition of primary carbides was also analyzed. In addition, micro-hardness tests were conducted on the turbine blade. The results indicated that size of γ′ precipitates in the tip region of the blade had a small increase, the decomposition of primary carbides did not occur. Meanwhile, the little reduction in micro-hardness in the tip section was found, which was caused by the coarsening of γ′ precipitates. To sum up, the service induced damage of the turbine blade after service for 600 hours was slight, the degeneration in the tip region was relatively obvious due to high temperature, the result is of great significance to evaluating the service safety of service exposed turbine blades.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012084
JournalIOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
Volume231
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Sept 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event2017 2nd International Seminar on Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, ISAMSE 2017 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 28 Jul 201730 Jul 2017

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