Low-temperature superplastic deformation of the EK79 nickel-based superalloy with the mixed ultrafine-grained microstructure

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One of the most effective ways to increase the processing plasticity of advanced superalloys (heat-resistant nickel-based alloys) is the formation of an ultrafine-grained (UFG) microstructure in bulk semi-finished products. Such a microstructure is a necessary condition for the manifestation of the structural superplasticity effect in the technological processes of manufacturing products from such superalloys. One of the most promising methods for producing UFG microstructures is thermomechanical treatment (TMT) according to the multiple isothermal forging scheme. It has been shown that the EK79 superalloy after TMT, with a gradual decrease in the processing temperature from 0.88 to 0.62 Ts (where Ts is the strengthening phase dissolution temperature) leads to the transformation of the initial microduplex fine-grained microstructure into a mixed UFG microstructure. Such a mixed UFG microstructure consists of: 1) relatively coarse (inherited from the fine-grain microstructure) particles – γ'-phase with a size of 3.0±0.8 μm; 2) γ-grains, and incoherent γ'-phase particles with a size of 0.3–0.5 μm; 3) strengthening coherent intragranular γ'-phase particles with a size of 0.05–0.1 μm, released upon cooling from the TMT temperature to room temperature. During uniaxial compression tests, the EK79 superalloy with such microstructure, demonstrates low-temperature superplasticity in the temperature range of 800–1000 °C. It has been found that an increase in the deformation temperature up to 1000 °C, leads to the increase of γ-phase grains to micron size. The maintenance of superplastic properties in the presence of relatively coarse incoherent particles in the microstructure of the second phase (γ'-phase) is apparently related to the fact that the deformation is localised in the UFG component.

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Elvina V. Galieva

Institute for Metals Superplasticity Problems of RAS

Email: galieva_elvina_v@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1074-6274

PhD (Engineering), researcher

Россия, 450001, Russia, Ufa, Stepan Khalturin Street, 39

Ekaterina Yu. Klassman

Institute for Metals Superplasticity Problems of RAS

Author for correspondence.
Email: klassman@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1984-5137

postgraduate student, engineer

Россия, 450001, Russia, Ufa, Stepan Khalturin Street, 39

Vener A. Valitov

Institute for Metals Superplasticity Problems of RAS

Email: valitov_va@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1349-6047

Doctor of Sciences (Engineering), leading researcher

Россия, 450001, Russia, Ufa, Stepan Khalturin Street, 39

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