Experimental investigation on low cycle fatigue of DZ125 with film cooling holes in different processes of laser drilling

Jianwei Liang, Xing Ai, Zhixun Wen, Zhufeng Yue

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Abstract

Due to the different low cycle fatigue (LCF) properties and fatigue fracture behavior around film cooling holes on DZ125, the LCF tests are carried out using tension cycling under stress control conditions (stress ratio R = 0.1) at 900 °C. The specimens were designed as thin-wall plate with single hole and multi holes under picosecond and nanosecond laser drilling processes. Comparative analyses of the differences between fatigue life and microscopic fracture morphology are conducted. It is shown that under the same stress condition, the relationship between fatigue life is as follows: picosecond laser single-holed specimen > nanosecond laser single-holed specimens > picosecond laser multi-holed specimens > nanosecond laser multi-holed specimens. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) analyses of the fracture revealed that the crack initiates from the film cooling holes where fatigue source zone, fatigue crack propagation zone and fatigue fracture zone can be found. However, the different processes lead to slightly different fracture morphology: radial-type ridge centering on the fatigue source zone is more apparent and uniform in picosecond laser drilling specimens than in the nanosecond laser drilling ones. On the other hand, the radial-type ridge is biased toward large-aperture side with nanosecond laser drilling.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)326-333
Number of pages8
JournalEngineering Failure Analysis
Volume59
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2016

Keywords

  • Directionally solidified superalloy DZ125
  • Low cycle fatigue (LCF)
  • Nanosecond laser
  • Picosecond laser
  • Scanning electron microscope (SEM)

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