Effect of inclusion defect on fatigue failure of FGH96 superalloy at 600°C

Abstract

High cycle fatigue experiments were conducted at 600°C to study the effect of manufacture defect on crack initiation behaviour of FGH96. The experiments were performed at different stress levels to considering the coupling effect of loading and defect. The stress ratio was selected at 0.05. The results revealed that the fatigue life behaviour are much different in different loading levels. In order to examine the crack initiation mechanism, Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) method was used to analyze the failure surfaces. Different failure modes including surface cracking, sub surface cracking as well as internal crack initiation were found. The tested fatigue lives were found to have a strong relation with the mode of the crack initiation.