Effect of sustained load on fatigue crack growth behavior of FGH96 at elevated temperature

Accurate prediction of fatigue crack growth behavior is crucial to damage tolerance assessment of turbine disk. Powder nickel-based superalloy is a kind of preferred material of turbine disk. For the purpose of better understanding the characteristics of its crack growth behavior under dwell fatigue conditions at elevated temperature, dwell fatigue crack growth tests of powder nickel-based superalloy FGH96 were conducted with compliance method at three temperatures (600 & DEG;C, 650 & DEG;C, 700 & DEG;C) and multiple dwell time conditions (from 0 s to 60 s). The results show that sustained load can accelerate fatigue crack growth rate of FGH96 significantly at high temperature, and it is more pronounced with higher temperature and prolonged dwell time. At higher & UDelta;K level, the acceleration effect brought by sustained load seems to diminish, this is ascribed to rapid crack growth rate which leads to insufficient time for time-dependent damage occurring at crack tip zone. The effect of temperature on dwell fatigue crack growth rate is more remarkable from 650 & DEG;C to 700 & DEG;C, compared with that from 600 & DEG;C to 650 & DEG;C. The fatigue crack growth resistance of FGH96 is sensitive to sustained load at 700 & DEG;C, just 1 s dwell loading can produce remarkable acceleration effect on fatigue crack growth rate. The time-dependent crack extension in a loading cycle increases with dwell time in a decelerated manner. Finally, A phenomenologicalbased crack growth model considering time-dependent damage was proposed, the comparation between the proposed model and the experiment data confirms that it works well for a wide range of temperature and dwell time.