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    Failure Analysis of Gas Turbine Blade Made of Ni-Based Superalloy

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    The document summarizes a failure analysis of a gas turbine blade made from a Ni-based superalloy. Microstructural examination found the γ' precipitates in the blade's airfoil body were much smaller than in the root, unexpectedly, given the airfoil experiences higher temperatures during long service. Fractography revealed local melting in the airfoil, indicating overheating caused the blade failure after 6500 hours of operation, well before its estimated 20,000 hour life. The conclusion is an unknown period of higher than normal gas turbine temperatures led to dissolution and reprecipitation of the γ' phase in the airfoil, causing premature failure.

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    The document summarizes a failure analysis of a gas turbine blade made from a Ni-based superalloy. Microstructural examination found the γ' precipitates in the blade's airfoil body were much smaller than in the root, unexpectedly, given the airfoil experiences higher temperatures during long service. Fractography revealed local melting in the airfoil, indicating overheating caused the blade failure after 6500 hours of operation, well before its estimated 20,000 hour life. The conclusion is an unknown period of higher than normal gas turbine temperatures led to dissolution and reprecipitation of the γ' phase in the airfoil, causing premature failure.

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    The document summarizes a failure analysis of a gas turbine blade made from a Ni-based superalloy. Microstructural examination found the γ' precipitates in the blade's airfoil body were much smaller than in the root, unexpectedly, given the airfoil experiences higher temperatures during long service. Fractography revealed local melting in the airfoil, indicating overheating caused the blade failure after 6500 hours of operation, well before its estimated 20,000 hour life. The conclusion is an unknown period of higher than normal gas turbine temperatures led to dissolution and reprecipitation of the γ' phase in the airfoil, causing premature failure.

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    Failure Analysis of Gas Turbine Blade Made of Ni-Based Superalloy

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    Osama Aadil Saadi
    The document summarizes a failure analysis of a gas turbine blade made from a Ni-based superalloy. Microstructural examination found the γ' precipitates in the blade's airfoil body were much smaller than in the root, unexpectedly, given the airfoil experiences higher temperatures during long service. Fractography revealed local melting in the airfoil, indicating overheating caused the blade failure after 6500 hours of operation, well before its estimated 20,000 hour life. The conclusion is an unknown period of higher than normal gas turbine temperatures led to dissolution and reprecipitation of the γ' phase in the airfoil, causing premature failure.

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    Failure analysis of gas turbine

    blade made of Ni-based superalloy


    Osama Aadil Saadi
    160301029
    Content

     Gas turbine
     Material used
     Microstructural study
     Microstructural change
     Failure
    Application
    High temp failures

     Failure Mechanisms
     Creep
     Fatigue
     Corrosion
     Environmental attack
     Erosion
     Can occur simultaneously
    High temp alloys

     Widely used Ni and Co based super-alloys


     Withstand high stress & temperature

     Ni-based superalloys
     Exceptional combination of properties
    Material

     IN738LC

     Multiphase structure
     γ –Matrix
     γ′ - precipitates (cuboid shaped)
     Ni3 (Al,Ti)
    Under Heat treatment

      Carbide phases
     MC (eutectic)
     M23C6 (secondary)
     Degeneration of the MC
    Microstructure change (long service)

      Change in Size, distribution, space between ′ and carbides

     Coarsening of ′ precipitates

     Continuous carbides along GB


    Working

      Failure after 6500 hours


     750-800
     80 MPa
     Estimated life ~ 20,000 hours
     No coating on turbine blade
     Consistent fracture in all blades
     Fractured from airfoil body
    Optical Microscopy
    • Discontinuous carbides in root
    • Flaky carbides in airfoil

    • γ′ observed in root
    • Not observed in airfoil body

    • No precipitates in airfoil or
    • Smaller in airfoil as compared to root
    • reprecipitation in airfoil area
    SEM
     Confirmed smaller size in airfoil body
     Unexpected microstructure
     Worked 6500 hour
     Should be coarsened
     Experiences higher temperature than root
     γ′ size
     Airfoil 50 nm
     Root 500 nm
    Fractography
     No evidence of progressive failure
     Smaller area (marked by red line)
    shows local melting
     Sponge texture
    conclusion

     Temperature of gas turbine increased for unknown amount of time


    (overheating).
     The blades were confronted to higher temperature compared to service
    temperature (750 °C).
     The size and distribution of γ' in the airfoil show that these precipitates
    dissolved in the matrix and re-deposited

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