A series of directional solidification experiments have been performed to study the effect of cooling rate on the precipitation behavior of MC carbide in nickel-based superalloy under the temperature gradient of 500 K·s-1.Results reveal that the morphology of MC carbide changes from coarse block to fine strip,then to Chinese-script,and their sizes reduce gradually with the increasing of cooling rate from 2.53 K·s-1 to 36.4 K·s-1.At low cooling rates,most of these carbides are found to be located at the grain boundary and interdendritic regions,while the coupled growth of some carbides and γ matrix in the center of γ grains is occurred at high cooling rate.The main elements forming MC carbide are Ta,W,and Hf.
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