Effect of molybdenum addition on precipitate coarsening kinetics in Inconel 740H: A phase-field study

Abstract

Inconel 740H (IN740H) has emerged as an important candidate for the advanced ultra-supercritical (AUSC) steam turbines due to its superior microstructural stability and creep resistance under service conditions. In the present work, we have reparameterized a multicomponent Ni-based superalloy (IN740H) into an equivalent ternary Ni-Al-Mo superalloy, based on the partitioning coefficients of the elements, using the thermodynamic database (CALPHAD). We use this thermodynamic description to employ a quantitative phase-field model to assess the long-term stability of γ′ precipitates in IN740H utilizing GPU-based supercomputing architecture. The assessment helps us to enhance our understanding of the effect of the atomic diffusivity of Mo on coarsening kinetics of the γ′-precipitates in equivalent ternary Ni-Al-Mo superalloy. Investigation reveals that our phase-field model can accurately predict the experimentally observed coarsening kinetics in IN740H.