ISSN:1000-8365 CN:61-1134/TG
Your Position :Home->Articles Online->2026 Vol.47 No.8

View Full-text
Effect of Thermal Exposure on the Microstructure Stability ofDD10 Single-crystal Superalloy
Author of the article:MA Xiulin1, HUANG Taiwen1, XU Jiasheng1, LIU Lijun2, CAO Lamei2, SU Haijun1, LIU Lin1,3
Author's Workplace:1. State Key of Laboratory Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China; 2. Science& Technology on Advanced High Temperature Structure Materials Laboratory, AECC Beijing Institute of AeronauticalMaterials, Beijing 100095, China; 3. Suzhou HTA Materials Technology Co., Ltd., Suzhou 215500, China
Key Words:nickel-based single-crystal superalloy; thermal exposure; γ′ phase; TCP phase
Abstract:
In critical components such as aircraft engines, the performance and stability of high-temperature alloys directlyimpact component safety and efficiency. Through long-term thermal exposure experiments conducted at 700 and 1 100 ℃on fully heat-treated DD10 single-crystal superalloys, this study systematically investigated the volume fraction,morphological characteristics, and evolution mechanisms of the γ′ strengthening phase (size, morphology, distribution) andtopologically close-packed (TCP) phases under different aging temperatures and durations. The results indicate that during700 ℃ thermal exposure, only slight coarsening of the γ′ phase occurs along the dendrite trunks and interdendritic regions,with no TCP phase precipitation detected. As the thermal exposure temperature increases to 1 100 ℃, the morphology ofthe γ′ phase in the alloy significantly changes. After 200 h of thermal exposure at 1 100 ℃, the γ′ phase morphologytransforms from a regular cubic configuration to an irregular form, resulting in the formation of a rafted structure. Withprolonged thermal exposure time, the rafted structure gradually coarsens. Additionally, with increasing temperature, thesegregation of refractory elements induces the precipitation of the μ phase. During thermal exposure at 700 and 1 100 ℃,the difference in the lattice constant between the γ and γ′ phases decreases with increasing temperature, and the absolutevalue of the degree of misfit between the two phases also diminishes accordingly. After 200 h of thermal exposure at700 ℃, the degree of misfit is slightly greater than that in the as-heat-treated state, and the cubicity of the γ′ phase reachesits maximum at this point.