In order to get fundamental understanding to establish a refurbishment technology for advanced gas turbine components, the cellular formation associated with a y/y microstructure coarsened in lamellar or equiaxed arrays in single crystal Ni-base superalloys, CMSX-2 and CMSX-4, have been studied, supposing the case in which they were previously subjected to a damage associated with local plastic deformation, followed by a re-heat treatment. During this study special attention was paid to understand the nucleation and the growth of the transformation from viewpoints of crystallo-plasticity and therm0 dynamics. The experimental evidence indicated that the transformation originated and developed with high anisotropy, being influenced by the following factors: the strain field produced by local plastic deformation, the crystallographic orientation, the re-heat treatment temperature and time, and the microsegregation in the material. It was shown that the transformation was reproduced in material previously subjected to fatigue and thermo-mechanical fatigue damage, in which the shearing of y precipitates resulting from the activation of { 11 l}4fO> slip systems was significant. It was shown that diffusion was controlling the growth rate of the transformation, accompanied with an activation energy of 36 kcal/mol. Furthermore, the effect of the local cellular transformation on the high temperature small fatigue crack propagation was quantified experimentally. supeml10ys 2oc0 Edited byT