Abstract
The aim of this paper was to identify the grain size effect on the small fatigue crack initiation and growth mechanisms of nickel-based superalloy GH4169. Results showed that there was a transition of fatigue crack initiation mechanism between fine-grained material and coarse-grained material. Small fatigue crack growth rates were almost constant across a wide range of crack lengths. Once the surface crack length reached the critical size of 200μm, the crack would propagate fairly quickly. At a given experimental condition, the scattering of fatigue lives of the parallel specimens was dependent on the crack initiation mechanisms.
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