High temperature fatigue of nickel-base superalloys - A review with special emphasis on deformation modes and oxidation

Engineering Failure Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2668-2697

  Pineau, Andre ^a   Antolovich, Stephen D ^b  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Fatigue crack propagation; High cycle fatigue; Low cycle fatigue; Ni base superalloys

Indexed keywords

BASIC PRINCIPLES; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CONVENTIONALLY CASTS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DEFORMATION MODES; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS; FATIGUE BEHAVIOUR; HIGH CYCLE FATIGUE; HIGH-TEMPERATURE FATIGUE; LIFE PREDICTION MODELS; LOW CYCLE FATIGUE; LOW CYCLE FATIGUES; NI-BASE SUPERALLOYS; NICKEL BASE SUPERALLOY; THERMOMECHANICAL FATIGUE; USED PRODUCT;

CRACK DETECTION; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALLURGY; MODELS; NICKEL; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

SUPERALLOYS;

EID: 69249203661     PISSN: 13506307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2009.01.010     Document Type: Article

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