Enhancing tensile properties of wrought Ni-based superalloy ATI 718Plus at elevated temperature via morphology control of η phase

Abstract The evolution of η phase and its effect on the tensile properties at 700 oC in 718Plus superalloy after three solution (at 940 °C for 1 h) and single aging (at 870 °C for 25 h, 50 h and 100 h) heat treatments, were investigated. The results showed that there were several various morphologies of η phase in 718Plus samples. As aging time increased, the volume fraction of needle-like/plate-like increased continuously from 5.32 %, 7.78% to 29.52 %, while the volume of granular/short rod-like η phase firstly increased from 0.46 % to 0.68 % then decreased to 0.56 %. The high temperature tensile properties were affected by η phases with various morphologies. With aging time increasing, the ultimate tensile strength was obviously improved from 797.11 MPa to 860.57 MPa, which could be attributed to a certain number of plate-like/needle-like η phases at the grain boundaries which could hinder the dislocations motion near the grain boundaries. And the elongation weakly increased firstly from 16.84 % to 18.76 % and then decreased to 18 %, which was closely related to granular/short-rod η phases. Enhancing tensile strength and acceptable ductility could be obtained by morphology control of η phase applying SA heat treatments in the study: promoting the simultaneous precipitation of an appropriate amount of plate-like/needle-like η phases and a small amount of granular/short rod-like η phases.