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Nickel base superalloys are used extensively for manufacturing the hottest parts of aircraft jet engines. The highest mechanical performances are required when designing critical components of the first stage of the turbine such as the disk and the blades. These exceptional properties are only obtained by a careful optimization of both chemical composition and thermomechanical treatments in order to achieve a microstructure which meets the specific needs of a particular part. Schematically we shall look first into mechanical behaviour under high stresses and usually low temperature and second into deformation mechanisms and flow stress under small load, i.e. at high temperature.
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Strudel, J.L. (1987). Mechanical Properties of Nickel Base Alloys in Relation with their Microstructure. In: Marriott, J.B., Merz, M., Nihoul, J., Ward, J. (eds) High Temperature Alloys. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1347-9_1
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