Mechanical Aspects of Plastic Deformation of Nickel Based Superalloy

Abstract

Variations of a true stress vs. true strain illustrate behaviour of materials during plastic deformation. Stress-strain relationship is generally evaluated by a torsion, compression and tensile tests. Results of these tests provide crucial information pertaining to the stress values which are necessary to run deformation process at specified temperature and cooling rate. Uniaxial compression tests at temperatures below the γ solvus were conducted on nickel based superalloy CMSX-4, to study the effect of temperature and strain rate on its flow stress. On the basis of received flow stress values activation energy of a high-temperature deformation process was estimated. Mathematical dependences (σpl -T i σpl - ἐ) and compression data were used to determine material constants. These constants allow to derive a formula that describes the relationship between strain rate, deformation temperature and true stress.