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Dendritic Packing and Porosity Formation within Single Crystal CMSX-4® Ni-Base Superalloy

  • S. Perry*
  • , J. Strickland
  • , B. Nenchev
  • , K. Tassenberg
  • , H. B. Dong
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Specialised imaging techniques are instrumental for extracting the wealth of information locked within as-cast microstructures. Recently, a novel characterisation tool (Shape-Limited Primary Spacing) was developed for determining primary dendrite arm spacing (PDAS), dendritic packing pattern and porosity formation within single crystal microstructures. In this work, the algorithm is applied to a single crystal CMSX-4® Ni-base superalloy to investigate the relationship between dendritic packing pattern and condensation porosity. It is concluded that porosity formation is reduced when regular organised dendritic packing patterns form. This work elucidates new unknown relationships between packing and porosity and may help to develop improved process-property models for defect prediction.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012008
JournalIOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
Volume947
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Oct 2020
Event2020 3rd International Conference on Mechanical Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering, MMIE 2020 - Tokyo, Japan
Duration: 26 Aug 202028 Aug 2020

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ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Materials Science
  • General Engineering

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