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Creep tests have been correlated with microstructural changes which occurred during creep of Inconel 617 at 1000 °C, 24.5 MPa. The following results were obtained: 1) Fine intragranular carbides which are precipitated during creep are effective in lowering the creep rate during the early stages of the creep regime (within 300 h). 2) Grain boundary carbides migrate from grain boundaries that are under compressive stress to grain boundaries that are under tensile stress. This is explained in terms of 1 the dissolution of relatively unstable carbides on the compressive boundaries, 2 the diffusion of the solute atoms to the tensile boundaries and 3 the reprecipitation of the carbides at the tensile boundaries. The rate of grain boundary carbide migration depends on grain size. 3) M23C6 type carbides, having high chromium content, and M6C type carbides, having high molybdenum content, co-exist on the grain boundaries. M23C6 type carbides, however, are quantitatively predominant. Furthermore, M6C occurs less frequently on the tensile boundaries than on the stress free grain boundaries. This is attributed to the difference of the diffusion coefficients of chromium and molybdenum. 4) The grain boundaries on which the carbides have dissolved start to migrate in the steady state creep region. The creep rate gradually increases with the occurrence of grain boundary migration. 5) The steady state creep rate depends not so much on the morphological changes of carbides as on the grain size of the matrix.
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Kihara, S., Newkirk, J.B., Ohtomo, A. et al. Morphological changes of carbides during creep and their effects on the creep properties of inconel 617 at 1000 °C. Metall Trans A 11, 1019–1031 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02654716
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