TY - JOUR A1 - Epishin, A. A1 - Link, T. A1 - Klingelhöffer, Hellmuth A1 - Fedelich, Bernard A1 - Brückner, Udo A1 - Portella, Pedro Dolabella T1 - New technique for characterization of microstructural degradation under creep: Application to the nickel-base superalloy CMSX-4 JF - Materials science and engineering A N2 - A new experimental technique (repeated load annealing of flat wedge shaped specimens) was proposed for characterization of microstructural degradation under creep conditions. This technique was applied to investigate the microstructural degradation of the nickel-base superalloy CMSX-4 in a wide range of temperatures and stress levels. The results obtained allowed to describe analytically the kinetics of rafting, which is important to predict the reduction of fatigue lifetime and yield stress. KW - Microstructural degradation KW - Nickel-base superalloys KW - Rafting PY - 2009 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2008.04.135 SN - 0921-5093 SN - 1873-4936 VL - 510-511 SP - 262 EP - 265 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-19354 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fedelich, Bernard A1 - Künecke, Georgia A1 - Epishin, A. A1 - Link, T. A1 - Portella, Pedro Dolabella T1 - Constitutive modelling of creep degradation due to rafting in single-crystalline Ni-base superalloys JF - Materials science and engineering A N2 - A constitutive model for the mechanical behaviour of single-crystalline superalloys at high temperatures has been developed. The model relies on the slip system theory and is able to predict rafting and its influence on plastic flow. The kinetics of rafting are assumed to be driven by the reduction of the internal stresses represented by the macroscopic back-stress. The rafting effect is incorporated in the model through the dependence of the Orowan stress on the channel width. The model has been validated for the alloy CMSX-4 at 950 °C. The rafting part of the model has been calibrated by measurements of the channel widths after several levels of creep strains and for several loads. KW - Single crystal superalloy KW - Creep KW - Rafting KW - Constitutive modelling KW - Viscoplasticity PY - 2009 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2008.04.089 SN - 0921-5093 SN - 1873-4936 VL - 510-511 SP - 273 EP - 277 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-19353 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -