Institute of Materials Science

and Technology
Computational Materials Engineering
erwin.povoden-karadeniz@tuwien.ac.at

Thermokinetic simulation of precipitation and evaluation of Yield strength in Ni-base

superalloy PWA1480
E. Povoden-Karadeniz1, M. Kozeschnik2, M.R. Ahmadi2, E. Kozeschnik1,3
1Christian

Doppler Laboratory for Early Stages of Precipitation, Institute of Materials Science and Technology, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
2University of Technology Graz, Austria
3Institute of Materials Science and Technology, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

Interfacial energies
In the nucleation simulation of coherent precipitates their interfacial energies resulting from
generalized nearest-neighbour broken-bond model (NNBB) are decreased when the
interface between matrix and precipitate is diffuse [1]. In a computation simulation of
continuous cooling of Ni-base single-crystal superalloy PWA 1480 the interfacial energy at
the initial stages of (Ni,Co)3(Al,Ti,X) gamma precipitation close to the its thermodynamic
solvus is reduced significantly due to diffuse interface during nucleation of fully-coherent
gamma.

Figure 1: Thermal
evolution
of
interfacial energy
factor
due
to
diffuse
interface
calculated
with
Tcrit=2003K, based
on [1]

Figure 2 (a) left: Tcrit representing the highest

metastable solvus of gamma in the system Ni-AlCr-Ti, (b) right: Calculated interfacial energies of
gamma considering diffuse interface (blue curve)
compared with calculated NNBB interfacial
energies (green curve).

Thermodynamics

Figure 2: Thermodynamic
solvi of g calculated with
MatCalc Engineering
database, rel1.0 and
experimental data.

Precipitation simulation

Figure 4: g formation
accompanied by
pronounced
exothermal DSC peak.

Figure 3: Calculated
equilibrium phase fractions
of PWA 1480 (lines) and
experimental results
(symbols).

The multi-component thermodynamic database mc_Ni.tdb is

designed for the application in precipitation simulations in
Ni-base superalloys. It is used together with the diffusion
mobility database mc_Ni.ddb.

The experimental heat flow curve (Fig. 4,

left) and particle sizes (Figure 5, down
left) are reproduced by the simulation
when temperature-dependent decrease
of the interfacial energy is considered.

Total Yield strength prediction

The total Yield strength (TYS) is

evaluated, taking into account order
hardening (Fig. 6, upper right), the
antiphase boundary energy is assumed
to be 100 mJ/m2, as suggested by R.C.
Reed (The Superalloys: Fundamentals
and Applications, 2008). TYS scales with
decreased mean particle radii at multimodal precipitation during cooling. Since
g-precipitate
radii
depend
on
supersaturation and are lower at faster
cooling (Fig. 6, lower right), TYS also
1423K becomes higher with increasing cooling
rate.

References: [1] B. Sonderegger and E. Kozeschnik, Metal.Mater.Trans. A 41(2010)3262.

[2] T. Grosdidier, A. Hazotte, A. Simon, Mater.Sci.Eng. A 256(1998)183.

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