“…The cooling design has been more and more complicated and led to very thin sections in the blade. Experiments have revealed that the creep property of the blade material, i.e., Ni-based single crystal superalloys, would be different between the thin specimen and the thick one, which is known as the thickness debit effect (Brunner et al , 2012; Doner and Heckler, 1985; Seetharaman and Cetel, 2004). Most of the experiments show that the rupture life is greatly decreased and the creep rate is increased in the thin specimen when its thickness is less than 1.0 mm (Seetharaman and Cetel, 2004; Huettner et al , 2008, 2009; Cassenti and Staroselsky, 2009; Baldan, 1995).…”