Abstract
The effect of hold-time on fatigue crack growth behaviors of WASPALOY alloy was investigated. It was found that the role of hold-time depends on the competition between the harmful environmental effect and the beneficial effect of creep. If temperature is not higher than 705 °C, fatigue crack growth rate of WASPALOY alloy increases with hold-time. On the contrary, hold-time plays a beneficial role on steady state fatigue crack growth of WASPALOY alloy at 760 °C and lower stress intensity factor. The beneficial effect of hold-time was attributed to the creep caused stress relaxation during the hold-time. However, accumulated creep damages cause to cavity nucleation and growth at the grain boundaries, and then accelerate fatigue crack growth. Hold-time plays a harmful role during the final stage of fatigue crack growth.
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