M. Gao et al., PREFERENTIAL COARSENING OF GAMMA'' PRECIPITATES IN INCONEL-718 DURINGCREEP, Metallurgical and materials transactions. A, Physical metallurgy andmaterials science, 27(11), 1996, pp. 3391-3398
Preferential coarsening of the gamma '' (Ni3Nb) precipitates was obser
ved in polycrystalline INCONEL 718 during creep which involved princip
ally the growth of one of three variants at the expense of the others.
The tendency and extent of preferential coarsening are analyzed in te
rms of the interaction between the applied stress and the transformati
on strains and probabilistically in terms of the orientation of the ga
mma '' precipitates with respect to the tensile stress axis.