scholarly journals Relation of threshold levels fatigue crack development in low-alloy steel under harmonic and operational loading

Author(s):  
S Lebedinsky ◽  
O Naumov
2008 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 90-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Gasiak ◽  
Grzegorz Robak

The paper presents a test stand for measurements of fatigue crack propagation. The stand includes a fatigue machine MZGS–100 and a device for registration of the crack length. The test stand is equipped with a stereoscopic microscope with fluent magnification of 7× – 67.5×. The microscope can be applied for observation of fatigue crack development. The microscope is also equipped with a digital camera, which enables continuous observation of fatigue crack development on the computer monitor and it is not necessary to stop the machine. The test results obtained at this stand can be used for determination of fatigue life and fatigue crack propagation rate.


1987 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 340-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. D. Gilman

Analysis of fatigue crack growth data for low-alloy steel shows that the influence of cyclic frequency in simulated LWR environments can be interpreted as the superposition of a time-dependent, corrosion-assisted crack growth rate upon an increment predicted by a Paris law. The time-dependent component increases monotonically to a maximum of about 6×10−5 mm/s as stress cycling becomes more aggressive. A useful measure of aggressiveness is the average time rate of crack advance due to the Paris law component alone; i.e., AΔKn × frequency. The result suggests that current ASME Code methods for flaw assessment are highly conservative in some regimes of stress and frequency, but there is a possibility of growth rates well above the ASME XI, Appendix A curves in a very low-frequency, high-stress regime. An upper bound to the time rate of corrosion-assisted crack growth in low-alloy steel is well supported by the data. The threshold conditions for the onset of this high rate are less well defined and require further investigation.


2014 ◽  
Vol 891-892 ◽  
pp. 1295-1301
Author(s):  
Masakazu Okazaki ◽  
M. Muzvidziwa ◽  
R. Iwasaki ◽  
Naoto Kasahara

High cycle thermal fatigue failure of pipes induced by fluid temperature change is one of interdisciplinary issues to be concerned for long term structural reliability of high temperature structural material and components in energy systems. In order to get basic understanding on this article. the fatigue crack propagation tests were carried out in a low alloy steel and an austenitic stainless steel those were subjected to typical kinds of thermo-mechanical loading histories those included a simulated weld repair process. It was shown experimentally that the thermo-mechanical histories left their individual effects along the prior fatigue crack wake, resulting in significant change in the fatigue crack threshold. Some proposes are presented to predict those history effects.


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