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The creep fracture of wrought nickel-base alloys by a fracture mechanics approach

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Creep fracture in the 500 to 750°C temperature range was by an intergranular crack growth process involving the formation of microcracks in grain boundaries slightly ahead of the main crack. The crack growth was proportional to an exponential power of the stress intensity. Wide differences in cracking behavior were seen between different alloys, but their differences were due primarily to material processing history and not to compositionper se. Transverse sample orientation and coarser grain sizes significantly improved the resistance to cracking. Both slow crack growth and the final fast fracture toughness changed appreciably with test history. A good correlation was found between the notch properties and the creep behavior of an unnotched sample loaded to the yield strength.

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Floreen, S. The creep fracture of wrought nickel-base alloys by a fracture mechanics approach. Metall Trans A 6, 1741–1749 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02642302

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