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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 1989
Filed:
Sep. 15, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Keh-Minn Chang, Schenectady, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
148 13 ; 148162 ;
Abstract
A method is provided for reducing fatigue crack propagation in nickel base superalloys. The method involves a supersolvus anneal in which essentially all .gamma.' precipitate phase is dissolved. The supersolvus anneal is folloed by slow cooling which is at a rate which substantially reduces time dependent fatigue crack growth but which preserves the strength of the alloy at a useful level for many superalloy applications.