Modelling of Crack Growth in Single-Crystal Nickel-Base Superalloys.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Busse, Christian.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Linköping : Linkopings Universitet, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Abstract
  • Zusammenfassung
  • Sammanfattning
  • List of papers
  • Contents
  • Acronyms
  • Part I - Background and Theory
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • Aim of the work
  • Outline
  • Gas Turbines
  • General description
  • Single-crystal nickel-base superalloys in gas turbines and relevant loading conditions
  • Nickel-Base Superalloys
  • General description
  • Single-crystal nickel-base superalloys
  • Characteristic fracture behaviour of single-crystals
  • Testing
  • General overview
  • Determination of the crystallographic orientations
  • Fracture surfaces
  • Heat tints
  • Fatigue Crack Growth
  • General description
  • Fatigue crack growth modelling basis
  • Stress intensity factor and M-Integral
  • Crystallographic Crack Growth Model
  • Crystallographic crack growth
  • Crystallographic crack driving force
  • Crack path prediction
  • Crystallographic crack growth modelling
  • Finite element-context
  • Handling inelasticity
  • Review of Appended Papers
  • Conclusions and Outlook
  • Conclusions
  • Outlook
  • References
  • Part II - Appended Papers
  • Paper I: A finite element study of the effect of crystal orientation and misalignment on the crack driving force in a single-crystal superalloy
  • Paper II: Prediction of crystallographic cracking planes in a single-crystal nickel-base superalloy
  • Paper III: Evaluation of the crystallographic fatigue crack growth rate in a single-crystal nickel-base superalloy
  • Paper IV: Criteria evaluation for the transition of cracking modes in a single-crystal nickel-base superalloy
  • Paper V: Challenges in crack propagation prediction in single-crystal nickel-base superalloys
  • Paper VI: Three-dimensional LEFM prediction of fatigue crack propagation in a gas turbine disc material at component near conditions.