TY - JOUR A1 - Österle, Werner A1 - Krause, S. A1 - Moelders, Theodor A1 - Neidel, A. A1 - Oder, Gabriele A1 - Völker, J. T1 - Influence of heat treatment on microstructure and hot crack susceptibility of laser-drilled turbine blades made from René 80 N2 - Turbine components from conventionally cast nickel-base alloy René 80 show different hot cracking susceptibilities depending on their heat treatment conditions leading to slightly different microstructures. Electron probe micro-analysis, focused ion beam technique and analytical transmission electron microscopy were applied to reveal and identify grain boundary precipitates and the γ–γ'-microstructure. The distribution of borides along grain boundaries was evaluated statistically by quantitative metallography. The following features could be correlated with an increase of cracking susceptibility: i) Increasing grain size, ii) increasing fraction of grain boundaries with densely spaced borides, iii) lack of secondary γ'-particles in matrix channels between the coarse cuboidal γ'-precipitates. The latter feature seems to be responsible for linking-up of cracked grain boundary precipitates which occurred as an additional cracking mechanism after one heat treatment, whereas decohesion at the boride-matrix-interface in the heat affected zone of laser-drilled holes was observed for both heat treatments. KW - Turbine blades KW - Nickel-base superalloy KW - Laser drilling KW - Hotcrack susceptibility KW - Grain boundary precipitates PY - 2008 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2008.01.021 SN - 1044-5803 SN - 1873-4189 VL - 59 IS - 11 SP - 1564 EP - 1571 PB - Elsevier CY - New York, NY AN - OPUS4-17932 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -