“…Since these components are always subjected to repeated thermal stresses, high temperature low cycle fatigue failure is the major factor affecting the service life of the turbine blades. Extensive works have been done on some superalloys in order to reveal the relationship between the cyclic frequency, [1][2][3][4] stain rate, [5][6][7][8] waveform, 9) strain range, [10][11][12] hold period, [13][14][15][16] predeformation, 17,18) environment 4,[19][20][21] and temperature 7,[22][23][24][25] on the cyclic stress response, deformation mode and fatigue life during high temperature low cyclic fatigue. It can be realized that the temperature-and timedependent processes may often be associated with a substantial reduction in the fatigue life because of increasing temperature, decreasing cyclic frequency, or the introduction of hold period and predeformation.…”