Quantification of creep cavitation damage around a crack in a stainless steel pressure vessel

2004 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.J. Bouchard ◽  
P.J. Withers ◽  
S.A. McDonald ◽  
R.K. Heenan
Keyword(s):  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Pressure Vessel ◽  
Cavitation Damage ◽  
Creep Cavitation

Effect of Thermo-Mechanical History on Reheat Cracking in 316H Austenitic Stainless Steel Weldments

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Chen ◽  
Michael W. Spindler ◽  
David J. Smith ◽  
Peter E. J. Flewitt
Keyword(s):  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Austenitic Stainless Steel ◽  
Creep Deformation ◽  
Deformation Behaviour ◽  
Thick Section ◽  
Cavitation Damage ◽  
Reheat Cracking ◽  
Creep Cavitation ◽  
Designed Experiment

Reheat cracking has been observed in the heat affected zone of the 316H austenitic stainless steel thick section weldments during service at a temperature of ∼500°C. This has been attributed to the creep dominated relaxation of the highly triaxial residual stresses. Here the role of thermo-mechanical variables that contribute to the susceptibility of thick section 316H austenitic stainless steel weldments is briefly reviewed. The influence of the plastic strain, carbide precipitation and impurity element segregation on the subsequent creep deformation behaviour and the susceptibility to creep cavitation damage is discussed. A systematically designed experiment which includes these parameters has been undertaken for a 316H austenitic stainless steel. In addition, residual stress profiles have been introduced into cylindrical pre-treated specimens and the relaxation of these profiles with heat treatment has been measured by neutron diffraction. The experimental results are considered with respect to the effect of the microstructure on subsequent creep deformation and stress relaxation. The susceptibility to intergranular brittle fracture is discussed and an attempt is made to correlate the microstructure and stress state factors encountered in the HAZ with the accumulation of the creep cavitation associated with reheat cracking.

A Noncyclic Method for Determination of Accumulated Strain in Stainless Steel 304 Pressure Vessels

2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gongfeng Jiang ◽  
Gang Chen ◽  
Liang Sun ◽  
Yiliang Zhang ◽  
Xiaoliang Jia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Internal Pressure ◽  
Pressure Vessel ◽  
Peak Stress ◽  
Pressure Vessels ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Elastic Domain ◽  
Ratcheting Strain ◽  
Stainless Steel 304 ◽  
Accumulated Strain

Experimental results of uniaxial ratcheting tests for stainless steel 304 (SS304) under stress-controlled condition at room temperature showed that the elastic domain defined in this paper expands with accumulation of plastic strain. Both ratcheting strain and viscoplastic strain rates reduce with the increase of elastic domain, and the total strain will be saturated finally. If the saturated strain and corresponded peak stress of different experimental results under the stress ratio R ≥ 0 are plotted, a curve demonstrating the material shakedown states of SS304 can be constituted. Using this curve, the accumulated strain in a pressure vessel subjected to cyclic internal pressure can be determined by only an elastic-plastic analysis, and without the cycle-by-cycle analysis. Meanwhile, a physical experiment of a thin-walled pressure vessel subjected to cyclic internal pressure has been carried out to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of this noncyclic method. By comparison, the accumulated strains evaluated by the noncyclic method agreed well with those obtained from the experiments. The noncyclic method is simpler and more practical than the cycle-by-cycle method for engineering design.

The effect of proof testing on the shakedown behaviour of pressure vessel nozzles

1994 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
N I Crawley ◽  
D N Moreton ◽  
D G Moffat ◽  
A F Tolley
Keyword(s):  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Internal Pressure ◽  
Pressure Vessel ◽  
Steel Type ◽  
Pressure Cycling ◽  
Proof Testing ◽  
Pressure Tests ◽  
Test Pressure ◽  
Design Pressure

Cyclic internal pressure tests were conducted over several hundreds of cycles at pressures up to and in excess of the calculated proof test pressure on two nominally ‘identical’, stainless steel type 316 flush 90 degrees pressure vessel nozzles, designed and manufactured to BS 5500. Prior to this pressure cycling, one vessel was subjected to the required proof test of 1.25 times the design pressure. Significant incremental straining was recorded in the non-proof tested vessel during cycling at all pressures above the first yeild pressure (0.336 × design pressure). For the proof tested vessel significant incremental straining was not recorded during cycling until 15 percent above the design pressure.

Preliminary Review of the Influence of Cavitation Behavior in Creep Damage Constitutive Equations

2014 ◽  
Vol 940 ◽  
pp. 46-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Yang ◽  
Qiang Xu ◽  
Zhong Yu Lu ◽  
Simon Barrans
Keyword(s):  
Reference Value ◽  
Creep Damage ◽  
Preliminary Review ◽  
Current Application ◽  
Cavitation Damage ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Creep Cavitation ◽  
Cr Steels ◽  
Cavitation Behavior ◽  
Damage Equation

This review paper mainly consists of from two aspects: (a) the evolution of the cavitation damage equation from Dyson to current application in high Cr steels by traditional techniques; (b) quantitation analyses of cavitation behavior in brass, copper, dual phase steel from X-ray microtomtograph. Though there is a lack of experimental data for high Cr steels by X-ray microtomography currently, but (b) has provided reference value for studying creep cavitation behavior in high Cr steels. This paper will be the fundamental of development new creep damage constitutive equation through quantitation analyses of X-ray tomography.

Use of Duplex Stainless Steel in Economic Design of a Pressure Vessel

2006 ◽  
Vol 129 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Veljkovic ◽  
Jonas Gozzi
Keyword(s):  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Duplex Stainless Steel ◽  
Stainless Steels ◽  
Pressure Vessel ◽  
Design Procedure ◽  
High Strength Steels ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Pressure Vessels ◽  
Economic Design ◽  
European Standard

Pressure vessels have been used for a long time in various applications in oil, chemical, nuclear, and power industries. Although high-strength steels have been available in the last three decades, there are still some provisions in design codes that preclude a full exploitation of its properties. This was recognized by the European Equipment Industry and an initiative to improve economy and safe use of high-strength steels in the pressure vessel design was expressed in the evaluation report (Szusdziara, S., and McAllista, S., EPERC Report No. (97)005, Nov. 11, 1997). Duplex stainless steel (DSS) has a mixed structure which consists of ferrite and austenite stainless steels, with austenite between 40% and 60%. The current version of the European standard for unfired pressure vessels EN 13445:2002 contains an innovative design procedure based on Finite Element Analysis (FEA), called Design by Analysis-Direct Route (DBA-DR). According to EN 13445:2002 duplex stainless steels should be designed as a ferritic stainless steels. Such statement seems to penalize the DSS grades for the use in unfired pressure vessels (Bocquet, P., and Hukelmann, F., 2001, EPERC Bulletin, No. 5). The aim of this paper is to present an investigation performed by Luleå University of Technology within the ECOPRESS project (2000-2003) (http://www.ecopress.org), indicating possibilities towards economic design of pressure vessels made of the EN 1.4462, designation according to the European standard EN 10088-1 Stainless steels. The results show that FEA with von Mises yield criterion and isotropic hardening describe the material behaviour with a good agreement compared to tests and that 5% principal strain limit is too low and 12% is more appropriate.

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