Effect of solution treatment on static recrystallization of a post-deformed GH4586 superalloy

Solution treatment was carried on a post-deformed GH4586 superalloy in the solution temperature range of 1020°C to 1100°C and solution time of 2 h and 4 h. The results showed that the static recrystallization (SRX) occurred due to the residual distortion energy caused by high temperature deformation. With increasing solution temperature from 1020°C to 1100°C, the average grain size of γ matrix firstly decreased and then increased. With increasing solution time from 2 h to 4 h, the average grain size of γ matrix gradually increased from 24.2±3.2 μm to 30.9±3.8 μm. Grain boundaries and twinning boundaries are the main nucleated site for SRX. And when solution treated at 1020°C for 2 h, carbides can also become the preferential nucleation position. In addition, by analysing the relative deviation (v/vm ) distributions of Σ3 boundaries, it could be found that the higher solution temperature would lead to the increasing fraction of coherent Σ3 boundaries and the decreasing fraction of incoherent ones. Besides, the annealing twins nucleated and grew gradually during the migration of recrystallized grain boundaries, and their length fraction increased from 10.0% to 54.9% with increasing solution temperature.