Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : November 02, 2019 - November 04, 2019
Tension-compression fatigue tests were conducted on non-charged and hydrogen-charged additively manufactured Ni-based superalloy 718 to investigate the effect of solute hydrogen on the fatigue strength properties of the material. The surface condition of the specimens was either as-built or mechanically-polished, aiming to clarify the effect of process-induced defects and roughness on the property. Fractographic observations using a scanning electron microscope manifested that process-induced defects existed at the fracture origin of as-built specimens, whereas such defects were not observed in the mechanically-polished specimens. However, both the fatigue life and the fatigue limit of the specimens were neither affected by surface condition nor by hydrogen. The results revealed that (1) the defects were not detrimental to the fatigue strength of the material due to its large defect-size tolerance accounted to its coarse-grained microstructure, based on comparison with previous studies conducted on forged Alloy 718, and (2) hydrogen caused no remarkable influence on both crack growth rate and crack growth threshold of the material.
