An interpretation of creep rupture properties of grade 91 steel service- exposed for 100,000 hours at 600 °C

Author(s):  
K. Maruyama ◽  
M. Yaguchi ◽  
Y. Minami ◽  
K. Tamura ◽  
K. Yoshimi
2017 ◽  
Vol 139 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Maruyama ◽  
N. Sekido ◽  
K. Yoshimi

Predictions as to 105 h creep rupture strength of grade 91 steel have been made recently. The predicted values are examined with long-term creep rupture data of the steel. Three creep rupture databases were used in the predictions: data of tube products of grade 91 steel reported in National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) Creep Data Sheet (NIMS T91 database), data of T91 steel collected in Japan, and data of grade 91 steel collected by an American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) code committee. Short-term creep rupture data points were discarded by the following criteria for minimizing overestimation of the strength: selecting long-term data points with low activation energy (multiregion analysis), selecting data points crept at stresses lower than a half of proof stress (σ0.2/2 criterion), and selecting data points longer than 1000 h (cutoff time of 1000 h). In the case of NIMS T91 database, a time–temperature parameter (TTP) analysis of a dataset selected by multiregion analysis can properly describe the long-term data points and gives the creep rupture strength of 68 MPa at 600 °C. However, TTP analyses of datasets selected by σ0.2/2 criterion and cutoff time of 1000 h from the same database overestimate the data points and predict the strength over 80 MPa. Datasets selected by the same criterion from the three databases provide similar values of the strength. The different criteria for data selection have more substantial effects on predicted values of the strength of the steel than difference of the databases.


2013 ◽  
Vol 565 ◽  
pp. 382-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Triratna Shrestha ◽  
Mehdi Basirat ◽  
Indrajit Charit ◽  
Gabriel P. Potirniche ◽  
Karl K. Rink

Author(s):  
Kouichi Maruyama ◽  
Nobuaki Sekido ◽  
Kyosuke Yoshimi

Predictions as to 105 hrs creep rupture strength of grade 91 steel have been made recently. The predictions should be verified by some means, since they are based on certain assumptions. A formula for predicting long-term creep rupture lives should correctly describe long-term data points used in its formulation. Otherwise the formula cannot properly predict further longer-term creep rupture lives. On the basis of this consideration, the predictions are examined with long-term creep rupture data of the steel. In the predictions three creep rupture databases were used: data of tube products of grade 91 steel reported in NIMS Creep Data Sheet (NIMS T91 database), data of T91 steel collected in Japan, and data of grade 91 steel collected by an ASME code committee. Short-term creep rupture data points were discarded by the following criteria for minimizing overestimation of the strength: selecting long-term data points with low activation energy (multi-region analysis), selecting data points crept at stresses lower than a half of proof stress (σ0.2/2 criterion), and selecting data points longer than 1000 hrs (cut-off time of 1000 hrs). In the case of NIMS T91 database, a time-temperature parameter (TTP) analysis of a dataset selected by the multi-region analysis can properly describe the long-term data points. However, the TTP analyses of datasets selected by the σ0.2/2 criterion and by the cut-off time of 1000 hrs from the same database overestimate the long-term data points. The different criteria for data selection have more substantial effects on predicted values of the strength of the steel than difference of the databases.


Author(s):  
Masatsugu Yaguchi ◽  
Kaoru Nakamura ◽  
Sosuke Nakahashi

Creep rupture data of welded joints of ASME Grade 91 type steel have been collected from Japanese plants, milling companies and institutes, and the long-term creep rupture strength of the material has been evaluated. This evaluation of welded joints of Grade 91 steel is the third one in Japan as similar studies were conducted in 2004 and 2010. The re-evaluation of the creep rupture strength was conducted with emphasis on the long-term creep rupture data obtained since the previous study, with durations of the new data of up to about 60000h. The new long-term data exhibited lower creep strength than that obtained from the master creep life equation for welded joints of Grade 91 steel determined in 2010, then the master creep life equation was again reviewed on the basis of the new data using the same regression method as that used in 2010. Furthermore, the weld strength reduction factors obtained from 100000h creep strength of welded joints and the base metals are given as a function of temperature, where the master creep equations of the base metals are also redetermined in this study.


2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Maruyama ◽  
N. Sekido ◽  
K. Yoshimi ◽  
Y. Yamamoto

Abstract Grade 91 steel is widely used as steam pipes in ultrasupercritical (USC) steam boilers. In residual creep life assessment of the pipes by calculation, one needs creep rupture life of the steel as a function of stress and temperature in a time range longer than 105 h. Four regions with different creep rupture characteristics appear in a stress versus creep rupture life diagram of the steel. Main steam pipes made of the steel are used in a long-term region with low values of stress exponent and activation energy for creep rupture life (referred to as region G in this paper). Creep rupture lives of the steel in this region vary from heat to heat depending on their prior austenite grain size. This paper proposes a grain size-dependent equation representing creep rupture life of the steel in region G. The equation is verified with creep rupture data up to 232,833 h at 600 °C. Region G is absent in some heats with a large grain size. The equation can rationalize the absence in the heats. In a stress versus creep rupture life diagram of grade 92 steel, there is the same long-term region G. In the region, a creep rupture life of each heat is dependent on its grain size as is the case in grade 91 steel. The proposed equation accords well with the creep rupture lives of the grade 92 steel in region G.


Author(s):  
IMAM UL FERDOUS ◽  
NASRUL AZUAN ALANG ◽  
Juliawati Alias ◽  
Suraya Mohd Nadzir

Infallible creep rupture life prediction of high  temperature steel needs long hours of robust  testing over a domain of stress and temperature. A substantial amount of effort has been made to  develop alternative methods to reduce the time  and cost of testing. This study presents a finite  element analysis coupled with a ductility based  damage model to predict creep rupture time  under the influence of multiaxial stress state of  ex-service and as-received Grade 91 steel at 873 K. Three notched bar samples with different  acuity ratios of 2.28, 3.0 and 4.56 are modelled in commercial Finite Element (FE) software,  ABAQUS v6.14 in order to induce different stress  state levels at notch throat area and investigate  its effect on rupture time. The strain-based  ductility exhaustion damage approach is  employed to quantify the damage state. The  multiaxial ductility of the material that is  required to determine the damage state is  estimated using triaxiality-ductility Cock and  Ashby relation. Further reduction of the ductility  due to the different creep mechanisms over a  short and long time is also accounted for in the  prediction. To simulate the different material conditions: ex-service and as-received material,  different creep coefficients (A) have been  assigned in the numerical modelling. In the case  of ex-service material, using mean best fit data  of minimum creep strain rate gives a good life  prediction, while for new material, the lower  bound creep coefficient should be employed to  yield a comparable result with experimental  data. It is also notable that ex-service material  deforms faster than as-received material at the  same stress level. Moreover, higher acuity  provokes damage to concentrate on the small  area around the notch, which initiates higher  rupture life expectancy. It also found out that,  the stress triaxiality and the equivalent creep  strain influence the location of damage initiation  around the notch area.


Author(s):  
Marvin J. Cohn

Recent literature indicates that there is a concern regarding the short-term vs. long-term creep rupture base metal properties for Grade 91 material. Evaluations of recent creep rupture data suggest that the material properties degrade more severely than expected and extrapolated creep rupture properties may be very optimistic. One of the approaches to evaluate creep rupture data is with a parameterized master curve such as the Larson-Miller parameter. Evaluations of creep rupture data indicate that the effects of material degradation can be considered with appropriate stress, time and temperature relationships. Using the Larson-Miller parameter methodology, the selected heats of Grade 91 creep rupture data indicate a reasonable relationship that does not appear to degrade rapidly for the longer term data. If even longer term creep rupture data suggest severe aging degradation as compared to current extrapolations, a transition of the Larson-Miller parameter constant from 31 to 20 does not appear to be a good method to calculate the degraded life estimates. As longer term creep rupture data become available, resulting oxide thicknesses should be measured and reported. The adverse effect of oxidation at longer times, resulting in loss of material and effectively higher stress, should be evaluated.


2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuhiro Kimura ◽  
Masatsugu Yaguchi

Abstract Stress rupture factors and weld strength reduction factors for Grade 91 steel weldments in the codes and literatures have been reviewed. Stress rupture factors for weld metals proposed for code case N-47 in the mid 1980's was defined as a ratio of average rupture strength of the deposited filler metal to the average rupture strength of the base metal. Remarkable drop in creep rupture strength of weldments is significant issue of Grade 91, especially in the low-stress and long-term regime. A premature failure of Grade 91 steel weldments in the long-term, however, is caused by type IV failure which takes place in the fine grain heat affected zone (FG-HAZ), rather than fracture in the deposited weld metal. The stress rupture factor of the Grade 91 steel, therefore, was based on the creep rupture strength of cross weld test specimens. Creep rupture data of Grade 91 steel weldments reported in the publication of ASME STP-PT-077 were integrated with the creep rupture data collected in Japan and used for this study. Time- and temperature-dependent stress rupture factors for Grade 91 steel have been evaluated based on the consolidated database as a ratio of average creep rupture strength of cross weld test specimen to the average creep rupture strength of base metal.


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