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Which outcome occurs when forging a turbine blade airfoil at excessively high starting temperatures?

A)Increased material grain boundary diffusion
B)Decreased strain hardening exponent
C)Elevated intermetallic phase precipitation
D)Minimized thermal stress concentration

💡 Explanation

Increased temperatures accelerate diffusion; therefore vacancy concentration enables grain boundary sliding, leading to a coarsened microstructure and lower creep resistance, rather than the refined structure obtained at appropriate temperatures because the accelerated diffusion overwhelms planned deformation.

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