scholarly journals Cyclic Deformation and Low-Cycle Fatigue for 316LN Stainless Steel under Non-proportional Loading

2019 ◽  
Vol 300 ◽  
pp. 08002
Author(s):  
Yajing Li ◽  
Bin Ren ◽  
Xu Chen

The effects of loading path and strain amplitude ratio on the cyclic behavior and fatigue life were investigated on a 316LN nuclear grade stainless steel employing a series of symmetrically strain-controlled fatigue tests at room temperature. The loading paths of Uniaxial, Torsional, Proportional, Rhombic, Rectangular, and Circular were employed with the constant equivalent strain amplitude of 0.5%. The strain amplitude ratio of 2.35, 1.73 and 1.27, defined by the ratio of shear strain amplitude to the axial strain amplitude, was realized by changing the shear strain amplitude under Proportional, Rhombic, Rectangular and Elliptical loading paths. As expected, the significant non-proportional additional hardening was observed. It’s interesting to note that the axial cyclic stress response varied with the strain amplitude ratio, and the law was different under different loading paths. The fatigue life of all the tests were evaluated by three critical plane criteria proposed by Smith-Watson-Topper (SWT), Fatemi-Socie (FS) and Chen-Xu-Huang (CXH). Results show that the SWT criterion significantly overestimated the fatigue life of non-proportional loading because the effect of shear damage was not considered. The CXH criterion for tensile-type failure yielded good prediction results except for two torsional data points. The FS criterion provided better predictions than other models.

2007 ◽  
Vol 567-568 ◽  
pp. 141-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Evrard ◽  
Veronique Aubin ◽  
Suzanne Degallaix ◽  
Djimedo Kondo

In order to model the elasto-viscoplastic behaviour of an austenitic-ferritic stainless steel, the model initially developed by Cailletaud-Pilvin [1] [2] and used for modeling single-phase polycrystalline steel is extended in order to take into account the bi-phased character of a duplex steel. Two concentration laws and two local constitutive laws, based on the crystallographic slips and the dislocation densities, are thus simultaneously considered. The model parameters are identified by an inverse method. Simple tests among which tension test at constant strain rate and at different strain rates and uniaxial tension-compression test are used during the identification step. The predictive capabilities of the polycrystalline model are tested for non-proportional loading paths. It is shown that the model reproduces the over-hardening experimentally observed for this kind of loading paths. Then, yield surfaces are simulated during a uniaxial tension-compression test: it is shown that the distortion (i.e. plastic anisotropy induced by loading path) is correctly described.


2011 ◽  
Vol 295-297 ◽  
pp. 2314-2320
Author(s):  
Peng Min Lv ◽  
Chun Juan Shi

The tension-torsion thin walled tube specimens were used as the researching object in this paper. The method of determination to the critical plane which has the maximum normal strain and maximum shear strain was expounded. The strain state on the critical plane under non-proportional loading was analyzed, and the unified prediction model was used to calculate the fatigue life. In order to research the influence of phase difference on fatigue life under the non-proportional loading, the relation of the equivalent strain and the phase difference in different positive strain amplitude and different strain amplitude ratio were analyzed. It’s found that the dangerous phase difference which has the shortest fatigue life is in direct relation with the strain amplitude ratio. The general formula of dangerous phase difference is presented. Through the material mechanics performance and fatigue parameters of uniaxial stress state, the coefficients in the formula can be obtained and the coefficients of 15 kinds of common materials are given for practical application.


Author(s):  
Sergiy Kalnaus ◽  
Yanyao Jiang

Tension-compression, torsion, and axial-torsion fatigue experiments were conducted on the AL6XN alloy to experimentally investigate the cyclic plasticity behavior and the fatigue behavior. The material is found to display significant nonproportional hardening when the equivalent plastic strain amplitude is over 2×10−4. In addition, the material exhibits overall cyclic softening. Under tension-compression, the cracking plane is perpendicular to the axial loading direction regardless of the loading amplitude. The smooth strain-life curve under fully reversed tension-compression can be described by a three-parameter power equation. However, the shear strain-life curve under pure torsion loading displays a distinct plateau in the fatigue life range approximately from 20,000 to 60,000 loading cycles. The shear strain amplitude corresponding to the plateau is approximately 1.0%. When the shear strain amplitude is above 1.0% under pure shear, the material displays shear cracking. When the shear strain amplitude is below 1.0%, the material displays tensile cracking. A transition from shear cracking to tensile cracking is associated with the plateau in the shear strain-life curve. Three different multiaxial fatigue criteria were evaluated based on the experimental results on the material for the capability of the criteria to predict fatigue life and the cracking direction. Despite the difference in theory, all the three multiaxial criteria can reasonably correlate the experiments in terms of fatigue life. Since the cracking mode of the material subjected to pure torsion is a function of the loading magnitude, the prediction of cracking orientation becomes rather challenging.


1988 ◽  
Vol 110 (4) ◽  
pp. 380-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Fatemi ◽  
Peter Kurath

Two materials, an Inconel 718 and a 1045 steel, are used to verify the extension of a shear strain-based parameter developed to account for out-of-phase cyclic strain hardening to multiaxial mean-stresses. Shear strain amplitude on the maximum shear strain amplitude plane and the maximum stress normal to this plane are the nominal stress-strain parameters considered in this approach. Tension-torsion and axial-internal pressure loadings using tubular specimens are employed to investigate stress-strain states that exhibit mean-strains and/or mean-stresses. Deformation response relevant to the proposed fatigue damage algorithm such as mean-stress relaxation is discussed. Adequate fatigue life correlations are obtained by implementing the proposed analysis. It is also demonstrated that methodologies successful for correlating uniaxial mean-stress data often lead to erroneous multiaxial life predictions.


2011 ◽  
Vol 105-107 ◽  
pp. 1426-1432 ◽  
Author(s):  
De Gao Zou ◽  
Tao Gong ◽  
Jing Mao Liu ◽  
Xian Jing Kong

Two of the most important parameters in dynamic analysis involving soils are the dynamic shear modulus and the damping ratio. In this study, a series of tests were performed on gravels. For comparison, some other tests carried out by other researchers were also collected. The test results show that normalized shear modulus and damping ratio vary with the shear strain amplitude, (1) normalized shear modulus decreases with the increase of dynamic shear strain amplitude, and as the confining pressure increases, the test data points move from the low end toward the high end; (2) damping ratio increases with the increase of shear strain amplitude, damping ratio is dependent on confining pressure where an increase in confining pressure decreased damping ratio. According to the test results, a reference formula is proposed to evaluate the maximum dynamic shear modulus, the best-fit curve and standard deviation bounds for the range of data points are also proposed.


1984 ◽  
Vol 106 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. F. Socie ◽  
T. W. Shield

Biaxial fatigue tests were conducted on Inconel 718 thin-walled tubular specimens to quantify the effect of mean stress. The specimens were loaded in combined tension and torsion in strain control at room temperature. Fatigue lives ranged from 3000 to 15,000 cycles depending on the mean stress. These data were correlated with a parameter based on the maximum plastic shear strain amplitude, normal strain amplitude and mean normal stress on the plane of maximum shear strain amplitude. This parameter was combined with the Coffin-Manson equation for estimating fatigue lives. Observations of the cracking behavior show that mean stress affects the rate of crack growth and distribution of cracks.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shengnian Wang ◽  
Xinqun Gao ◽  
Wei Ma ◽  
Guoyu Li ◽  
Chong Shi ◽  
...  

The contribution of gravel fraction on the maximum shear modulus (Gmax), dynamic shear modulus ratio (G/Gmax), and damping ratio (λ) of cementitious coarse-grained soils has not been fully understood yet. Large-scale triaxial cyclic tests for geopolymer-stabilized coarse-grained soils (GSCGSs) were conducted with different volumetric block proportions (VBPs) under various confining pressures (CPs) for investigating their dynamic behaviors and energy dissipation mechanisms. Results indicate that the Gmax of GSCGS increases linearly with VBPs but nonlinearly with CP. High VBPs will probably result in a gentle decrease in G/Gmax and a rapid increase in normalized λ (λnor), while the opposite is the case for a high CP. With the shear strain amplitude being normalized, the G/Gmax and λnor are distributed in a narrow band with low dispersion and thus can be well-described by empirical functions of the normalized shear strain amplitude.


Author(s):  
Yajing Li ◽  
Dunji Yu ◽  
Xu Chen

Effects of strain amplitude and loading path on cyclic deformation behavior and martensitic transformation of 304 stainless steel were experimentally investigated at room temperature. Series of symmetrical strain-control low cycle fatigue tests with strain amplitude ranging from 0.4% to 1.0% and various loading paths (uniaxial, torsional, proportional, rhombus, square and circular) with the same equivalent strain amplitude of 0.5% were carried out. Three-stage cyclic deformation behavior containing initial hardening, cyclic softening or saturation, and secondary hardening as well as near-linear relationship between α’-martensite content and number of cycles was observed during the whole life regime as for each test. Besides, a nearly linear relation between peak stress and α’-martensite content was found during secondary hardening stage. Furthermore, higher strain amplitude or non-proportionality of loading path resulted in higher cyclic stress response and α’-martensite content growth rate, defined by the slope of curves of α’-martensite content versus number of cycles.


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