scholarly journals Influence of thermal ageing on creep rupture mechanism and creep life of P92 ferritic steel

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 086517
Author(s):  
Hui Kang ◽  
Junjie Shen ◽  
Shanjun Zhang ◽  
Hongguang Han ◽  
Fuyong Hu ◽  
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Author(s):  
Wenyan Gan ◽  
Hangshan Gao ◽  
Haiqing Pei ◽  
Zhixun Wen

Abstract According to the microstructural evolution during longterm thermal exposure at 1100 °C, the creep rupture life of Ni-based single crystal superalloys at 980 °C/270 MPa was evaluated. The microstructure was characterized by means of scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and related image processing methods. The size of γ’ precipitates and the precipitation amount of topologically close-packed increased with the increase in thermal exposure time, and coarsening of the γ’ precipitates led to the simultaneous increase of the matrix channel width. The relationship between the creep rupture life and the lattice misfit of γ/γ’, the coarsening of γ’ precipitate and the precipitation of TCP phase are systematically discussed. In addition, according to the correlation between γ’ phase evolution and creep characteristics during thermal exposure, a physical model is established to predict the remaining creep life.


1996 ◽  
Vol 82 (6) ◽  
pp. 526-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yutaka TSUCHIDA ◽  
Yukio TSUDA ◽  
Yoshikuni TOKUNAGA

Author(s):  
M.M. Barjesteh ◽  
S.M. Abbasi ◽  
K.Z. Madar ◽  
K. Shirvani

Creep deformation is one of the life time limiting reasons for gas turbine parts that are subjected to stresses at elevated temperatures. In this study, creep rupture behavior of uncoated and platinum-aluminide coated Rene?80 has been determined at 760?C/657 MPa, 871?C/343 MPa and 982?C/190 Mpa in air. For this purpose, an initial layer of platinum with a thickness of 6?m was applied on the creep specimens. Subsequently, the aluminizing were formed in the conventional pack cementation method via the Low Temperature-High Activity (LTHA) and High Temperature-Low Activity (HTLA) processes. Results of creep-rupture tests showed a decrease in resistance to creep rupture of coated specimen, compared to the uncoated ones. The reductions in rupture lives in LTHA and HTLA methods at 760?C/657 MPa, 871?C/343 MPa and 982?C/190 MPa were almost (26% and 41.8%), (27.6% and 38.5%) and (22.4% and 40.3%), respectively as compared to the uncoated ones. However, the HTLA aluminizing method showed an intense reduction in creep life. Results of fractographic studies on coated and uncoated specimens indicated a combination of ductile and brittle failure mechanisms for all samples. Although, the base failure mode in substrate was grain boundary voids, cracks initiated from coating at 760?C/657MPa and 871?C/343. No cracking in the coating was observed at 982?C/190MPa.


Author(s):  
N. Yoneyama ◽  
K. Kubushiro ◽  
H. Yoshizawa

9Cr steel weldments are concerned with evaluation of creep life time and creep rupture mechanism. In fine grain HAZ (FG-HAZ) of weldments, TYPE IV cracking and creep voids occurred at lower stress than rupture stress level of base metal. In the crept specimen, FG-HAZ sometime has large coarsening grains near creep voids. These recovery phenomena are localized in FG-HAZ, and recovered microstructures are dependent on heat input of welding. In this study, creep tests are examined in two types of weldments, and relations between creep life time and coarsened sub-grains or grains have been studied by microstructural changing with EBSP analysis. In crept specimens, boundaries are moved and boundary density is decreasing in the fine-grained HAZ. Maximum grain size and creep life time have linear function, and EBSP can evaluate creep life time of 9Cr weldments. These microstructural changing are considered by morphology of precipitates in the several crept specimens.


Metals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dezheng Liu ◽  
Yan Li ◽  
Xiangdong Xie ◽  
Guijie Liang ◽  
Jing Zhao

Creep damage is one of the main failure mechanisms of high Cr heat-resistant steel in power plants. Due to the complex changes of stress, strain, and damage at the tip of a creep crack with time, it is difficult to accurately evaluate the effects of residual stress on the creep rupture mechanism. In this study, two levels of residual stress were introduced in P92 high Cr alloy specimens using the local out-of-plane compression approach. The specimens were then subjected to thermal exposure at the temperature of 650 °C for accelerated creep tests. The chemical composition of P92 specimens was obtained using an FLS980-stm Edinburgh fluorescence spectrometer. Then, the constitutive coupling relation between the temperature and material intrinsic flow stress was established based on the Gibbs free energy principle. The effects of prior residual stress on the creep rupture mechanism were investigated by the finite element method (FEM) and experimental method. A comparison of the experimental and simulated results demonstrates that the effect of prior residual stress on the propagation of micro-cracks and the creep rupture time is significant. In sum, the transgranular fracture and the intergranular fracture can be observed in micrographs when the value of prior residual stress exceeds and is less than the material intrinsic flow stress, respectively.


Author(s):  
Taichiro Kato ◽  
Shin-Ichi Komazaki ◽  
Yutaka Kohno ◽  
Hiroyasu Tanigawa

The small punch (SP) creep test was carried out at the temperatures of 823∼923 K by using a further miniaturized specimen, namely, TEM disk-type specimen (φ 3.0×t0.25 mm). The tests were applied to the fine grain heat affected zone (FGHAZ), tempered HAZ (THAZ) and base metal (BM), respectively, which were removed from the joint of the reduced activation ferritic steel welded by an electron beam welding, in order to investigate the creep properties of such local regimes. The results obtained from the SP creep test were correlated with those of uniaxial creep tests using the base metal (BM) and welded joint (WJ). Experimental results revealed that there were no large differences between the SP creep rupture strengths of the FGHAZ and THAZ and that of the BM at the relatively high load levels. This result was in good agreement with the fact that the uniaxial creep strength of the WJ was almost coincident with that of the BM at the relatively high stress levels. In addition, the ratio of load (P) to stress (σ), which gave same rupture time, was calculated by using the creep rupture data of the BMs. As a result, the ratio was determined to be 0.43, resulting in the following equation; P = 0.43 σ.


2005 ◽  
Vol 297-300 ◽  
pp. 2272-2277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Woo Gon Kim ◽  
Song Nam Yoon ◽  
Woo Seog Ryu

To predict the creep-rupture life of type 316LN stainless steels which are major structural components of liquid metal reactors, a number of creep-rupture data were collected through literature survey and experimental data of KAERI. Using the data, the creep-rupture life was analyzed by means of the Larson-Miller, the Orr-Sherby-Dorn and the Manson-Haferd parametric methods. Polynomial equations for predicting the creep life were obtained. In order to analyze the acceptance and use of the parametric methods, standard error values were accurately investigated by statistical process of the creep data. As for the results, the three parametric methods are found to be favorable in predicting the creep life of type 316LN stainless steel. Each method did not generate a large error in the standard error of the estimate with variations of the temperatures, but the Orr-Sherby-Dorn and the Manson-Haferd methods showed a better agreement than the Larson-Miller one. Especially, at higher the 700oC, the Manson-Haferd method conformed well to the experimental data. The reason is because the Manson-Haferd method includes two constants of ta and Ta.


Author(s):  
Lynn M. Powers ◽  
Osama M. Jadaan ◽  
John P. Gyekenyesi

The desirable properties of ceramics at high temperatures have generated interest in their use for structural applications such as in advanced turbine systems. Design lives for such systems can exceed 10,000 hours. The long life requirement necessitates subjecting the components to relatively low stresses. The combination of high temperatures and low stresses typically places failure for monolithic ceramics in the creep regime. The objective of this paper is to present a design methodology for predicting the lifetimes of structural components subjected to creep rupture conditions. This methodology utilizes commercially available finite element packages and takes into account the time varying creep strain distributions (stress relaxation). The creep life of a component is discretized into short time steps, during which, the stress and strain distributions are assumed constant. The damage is calculated for each time step based on a modified Monkman-Grant creep rupture criterion. Failure is assumed to occur when the normalized accumulated damage at any point in the component is greater than or equal to unity. The corresponding time will be the creep rupture life for that component. Examples are chosen to demonstrate the CARES/CREEP (Ceramics Analysis and Reliability Evaluation of Structures/CREEP) integrated design program which is written for the ANSYS finite element package. Depending on the components size and loading conditions, it was found that in real structures one of two competing failure modes (creep or slow crack growth) will dominate. Applications to benchmark problems and engine components are included.


Author(s):  
Jongmin Kim ◽  
Woogon Kim ◽  
Minchul Kim

Abstract Thermally induced steam generator (SG) tube failures caused by hot gases from a damaged reactor core can result in a containment bypass event and may lead to release of fission products to the environment. A typical severe accident scenario is a station blackout (SBO) with loss of auxiliary feedwater. Alloy 690 which has increased the Cr content has been replaced for the SG tube due to its high corrosion resistance against stress corrosion cracking (SCC). However, there is lack of research on the high temperature creep rupture and life prediction model of Alloy 690. In this study, creep test was performed to estimate the high temperature creep rupture life of Alloy 690. Based on reported creep data and creep test results of Alloy 690 in this study, creep life extrapolation was carried out using Larson-Miller Parameter (LMP), Orr-Sherby-Dorn (OSD), Manson-Haferd Parameter (MHP), and Wilshire’s approach. And a hyperbolic sine (sinh) function to determine master curves in LMP, OSD and MHP methods was used for improving the creep life estimation of Alloy 690 material.


Author(s):  
Osama M. Jadaan ◽  
Lynn M. Powers ◽  
John P. Gyekenyesi

High temperature and long duration applications of monolithic ceramics can place their failure mode in the creep rupture regime. A previous model advanced by the authors described a methodology by which the creep rupture life of a loaded component can be predicted. That model was based on the life fraction damage accumulation rule in association with the modified Monkman-Grant creep rupture criterion. However, that model did not take into account the deteriorating state of the material due to creep damage (e.g., cavitation) as time elapsed. In addition, the material creep parameters used in that life prediction methodology, were based on uniaxial creep curves displaying primary and secondary creep behavior, with no tertiary regime. The objective of this paper is to present a creep life prediction methodology based on a modified form of the Kachanov-Rabotnov continuum damage mechanics (CDM) theory. In this theory, the uniaxial creep rate is described in terms of stress, temperature, time, and the current state of material damage. This scalar damage state parameter is basically an abstract measure of the current state of material damage due to creep deformation. The damage rate is assumed to vary with stress, temperature, time, and the current state of damage itself. Multiaxial creep and creep rupture formulations of the CDM approach are presented in this paper. Parameter estimation methodologies based on nonlinear regression analysis are also described for both, isothermal constant stress states and anisothermal variable stress conditions This creep life prediction methodology was preliminarily added to the integrated design code. CARES/Creep (Ceramics Analysis and Reliability Evaluation of Structures/Creep), which is a postprocessor program to commercially available finite element analysis (FEA) packages. Two examples, showing comparisons between experimental and predicted creep lives of ceramic specimens, are used to demonstrate the viability of this methodology and the CARES/Creep program.


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