Abstract: Materials and Testing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, ChinaManuscript received 18 October 1998 The threestage creep behavior of DD3 single crystal superalloy had been studied. The results show that the creeprupture properties of DD3 single crystal satisfy the requirements for high performance turbine blade application. The influence of crystal orientation on the creeprupture property of DD3 single crystal was tested and discussed. An engineering criterion to evaluate the regimes of secondary and tertiary creep is proposed, and this method gives a reasonable result for practical applications. The fractography and TEM micrography of the tested specimens had been studied, and it is determined that the glidecontrolled creep is the basic creep mechanism of DD3 single crystal at intermediate temperature, but the thermally activated processes become dominant at higher temperature.

Key words: threestage creep curve, creeprupture property, single crystal superalloy, glidecontrolled creep