采用熔体超温处理方法考察了DZ125定向凝固镍基高温合金熔体超温处理中的弛豫现象,结果表明:DZ125合金熔体超温处理中存在的弛豫现象对凝固组织有明显影响.当恒温静置时间小于30 min时,枝晶间距、偏析比、γ′相和γ+γ′共晶相的形貌及大小随恒温静置时间的增加均无明显变化.然而,进一步延长熔体恒温静置时间至60 min,枝晶间距增大、偏析加重、γ+γ′共晶相明显增大、枝晶间γ′相明显粗化.碳化物形貌以块状和非连续棒状为主,且随恒温静置时间的延长无明显变化.造成这种现象的主要原因是合金熔体结构的平衡需要一定的弛豫时间,恒温静置时间小于30 min时,熔体结构随静置时间的延长变化不大,进一步延长恒温静置时间至60 min熔体结构变化明显.熔体结构的变化将影响凝固过程及最终的凝固组织.因此,随熔体恒温静置时间延长凝固组织发生明显变化.
As a precipitation hardened unidirectionally solidified Ni-based superalloy,DZ125 has been extensively applied as structural materials in advanced aeroengine for gas turbine blades and vanes operating at elevated temperatures.The solidification microstructure of alloy plays an important role in determining the alloy's mechanical properties.For a given alloy,the thermal history of alloy melt has an obvious influence on the final solidification microstructure.However,previous researches mainly focused on melt superheating temperature.There are few investigations about the influence of the relaxation process of alloy melt on the solidification structure.In this paper,under the same conditions of processing parameters,e.g.,solid/liquid interface temperature gradient,withdrawing velocity,by changing the melt holding time,the relaxation phenomenon during melt superheating treatment of DZ125 was investigated.The melt was superheated to 1650℃and kept for 30 min,and then it was rapidly cooled down to 1500℃.In order to study the relaxation phenomenon during melt superheating treatment,the melt was held for 15,30 and 60 min,respectively,and then was withdrawn into the Ga-In-Sn liquid metal bath at a rate of 50μm/s.The results show that dendrite arm spacing, segregation ratios,size and morphology ofγ' phase andγ+γ' eutectic did not change with the increase of the holding time when melt holding time was less than 30 min.But,when melt holding time was prolonged to 60 min,the dendrite arm spacing,γ+γ' eutectic and the size ofγ' phase in interdendrite area increased,and the segregation becomes serious,but theγ' phase on dendrite trunk was lightly refined.The morphology of MC carbide mainly showed disconnected blocky and nodule,and unchanged with the prolongation of holding time.These changes in solidification structure should be primarily attributed to the influence of relaxation process on melt structure.When the melt holding time was less than 30 min,there was no evidently change in melt structure.B