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The [001] oriented single crystals of nickel-base superalloy NASAIR 100 with the planar, cellular, coarse-dendritic, and fine-dendritic solid/liquid (S/L) interfaces were prepared, respectively, and their microstructure and stress-rupture behavior at 1050 °C were investigated in both as-cast and solution heat-treated conditions. It was found that in as-cast single crystals of NASAIR 100, microsegregation and γ/γ′ eutectic produced in the solidification process increased, γ′ size decreased, and γ′ shape tended progressively to be cuboidal, with the successive transition of the S/L interface from planar to cellular, then to coarse-dendritic, and finally to fine-dendritic morphology. Furthermore, the solution temperature required to dissolve all as-cast γ′ and most of the γ/γ′ eutectic increased with the aforementioned successive transition of S/L interfaces. The reprecipitated γ′, after solution heat treatment (SHT), was usually fine and cuboidal. However, some W-rich phase was present in the heat-treated dendritic single crystals. Both the planar and the cellular single crystals of NASAIR 100 exhibited no superiority in stress-rupture life, irrespective of the heat-treatment conditions. Instead, the single crystals with dendritic morphology possessed excellent stress-rupture lives, after heat treatment at 1320 °C for 4 hours, followed by air cooling (AC). Perfect γ′ rafts with high-average aspect ratios formed during the stress-rupture tests of dendritic single crystals; in contrast, irregularly coarsening structures appeared in both the planar and cellular single crystals. The microstructure and solution behavior were illustrated in detail. Furthermore, the microstructural factors to affect the high-temperature stress-rupture life of the single crystals of NASAIR 100 were also analyzed.
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Guo, X., Fu, H. & Sun, J. Influence of solid/liquid interfaces on the microstructure and stress-rupture life of the single-crystal nickel-base superalloy NASAIR 100. Metall Mater Trans A 28, 997–1009 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-997-0230-3
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