Influence of Cooling Holes Distribution on High Cycle Fatigue Fracture Behavior of DD6 Single Crystal Superalloy

Abstract

The modeling air-cooled turbine blades specimens of DD6 single crystal superalloy with different distributions of cooling film holes were used to study the high cycle fatigue properties at room temperature. The SEM fracture observation was carried out. The results indicate that the cooling holes have significant effects on the high fatigue life of DD6 single crystal superalloy. The average life of non-hole specimens is four times of that of the three-row holes specimens under the same testing conditions. However, the distribution of cooling film holes has relatively less influence on fatigue life. The fracture of the specimens with non-hole is linear source by SEM analysis, but the cracks are found around the cooling film holes and the fracture of the specimens with single row to three rows is a typical multi-source rupture, and cracks all initiate from near film holes. According to fracture and crystallography theoretical conjecture, the cracks propagate along the {001} slip plane for non-hole, single-row holes and the middle location of the multi-row holes specimens. However, the cracks around the holes grow along the {111} slip plane for upper and lower holes of the specimens with multi-row holes. In addition, the distribution of stress field along cooling holes of four different specimens was analysed by FEM method. The results show that the fracture location and morphology of specimens are consistent well with numerical simulation analysis.

Keywords

• DD6 single crystal superalloy
• air-cooled blade
• cooling film hole
• fatigue property
• fracture behavior