Investigation on the primary creep of a nickel based alloy

Abstract

It is widely accepted that dislocation climb is involved in the steady state (i.e. secondary) creep at high temperatures, which is characterized by the formation and evolution of substructures. In current theories of steady state creep, dislocation climb is regarded as the rate controlling process. However, the role of dislocation climb in the primary (i.e. transient) creep at high temperatures is not clear. The present paper is to report the observations by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) on high temperature creep of a nickel based alloy. It will be shown that dislocation climb plays an important role not only in the steady state creep, but also in the primary creep.