An Interpretation of Axial Creep-Fatigue Damage Interaction in Type 316 Stainless Steel (Survey Paper)

1990 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Y. Zamrik

Creep-fatigue interaction and its effect on damage of components in service have been a major concern to analysts. To deal with this problem, several criteria have been proposed and used, such as: cycle-time fraction summation rule, strain limit, fracture maps where damage mechanisms are based on crack initiation or propagation, and ductility exhaustion. These concepts are reviewed in this paper so that one can interpret the damage mechanisms caused by creep and by fatigue. If a long period of dwell-time at elevated temperature is imposed on a component under strain conditions, stress relaxation occurs. Relaxation data can be used, for example, in austenitic steels, in predicting creep stages; however, interpretation of data obtained from such tests could be misleading in assessing damage. An example is given for life prediction on the basis of two selected criteria: the fraction rule and ductility exhaustion.

2018 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 05001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo Wärner ◽  
Mattias Calmunger ◽  
Guocai Chai ◽  
Johan Moverare

This work includes an investigation of two commercial austenitic steels: UNS S21500 (Esshete 1250) and UNS S31035 (Sandvik SanicroTM 25). The materials were exposed to isothermal strain controlled fatigue with load controlled dwell time at maximum strain. The testing temperature used was 700°C and the test cycles were performed in tension. Mechanical test data were obtained and analysed in order to define creep-fatigue damage diagrams at failure for the investigated austenitic alloys. During the given conditions, Sanicro 25 showed superior creep-fatigue life, suffered less amount of creep elongation for the same amount of strain amplitude and dwell times compared to Esshete 1250. Both alloys showed creep-fatigue interaction damage for specific test configurations.


Author(s):  
J. Kusumoto ◽  
H. Watanabe ◽  
A. Kanaya ◽  
K. Ichikawa ◽  
S. Sakurai

In order to develop the life prediction method under creep-fatigue loading for gas turbine combustion transition piece, creep-fatigue tests were carried out on both as-received and aged Ni-based superalloy Nimonic 263. Crack initiation and propagation behaviors for the smooth specimen were observed. An unique relationship was obtained between life fraction and the maximum surface crack length under triangular wave shape loading tests, except the results for the trapezoidal wave loading tests. The latter results were due to the over estimation of the surface crack length at the crack initiation. These were caused from an oxide film break during straining. In the case of removing the oxide film before the measurement of surface crack, the relationship between life fraction and the maximum surface crack length obtained as unique relationship regardless of triangular and trapezoidal strain wave shapes. Using the life prediction method proposed, which is based on maximum surface crack length, the damage of combustion transition piece materials in service was evaluated.


Author(s):  
Shigeru Takaya ◽  
Yuji Nagae ◽  
Tai Asayama

This paper describes a creep–fatigue evaluation method for modified 9Cr–1Mo steel, which has been newly included in the 2012 edition of the JSME code for design and construction of fast reactors. In this method, creep and fatigue damages are evaluated on the basis of Miner’s rule and the time fraction rule, respectively, and the linear summation rule is employed as the failure criterion. Investigations using material test results are conducted, which show that the time fraction approach can conservatively predict failure life if margins on the initial stress of relaxation and the stress relaxation rate are embedded. In addition, the conservatism of prediction tends to increase with time to failure. Comparison with the modified ductility exhaustion method, which is known to have good failure life predictability in material test results, shows that the time fraction approach predicts failure lives to be shorter in long-term strain hold conditions, where material test data is hardly obtained. These results confirm that the creep–fatigue evaluation method in the code has implicit conservatism.


Materials ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 651
Author(s):  
Jianxing Mao ◽  
Zhixing Xiao ◽  
Dianyin Hu ◽  
Xiaojun Guo ◽  
Rongqiao Wang

The creep-fatigue crack growth problem remains challenging since materials exhibit different linear and nonlinear behaviors depending on the environmental and loading conditions. In this paper, we systematically carried out a series of creep-fatigue crack growth experiments to evaluate the influence from temperature, stress ratio, and dwell time for the nickel-based superalloy GH4720Li. A transition from coupled fatigue-dominated fracture to creep-dominated fracture was observed with the increase of dwell time at 600 °C, while only the creep-dominated fracture existed at 700 °C, regardless of the dwell time. A concise binomial crack growth model was constructed on the basis of existing phenomenal models, where the linear terms are included to express the behavior under pure creep loading, and the nonlinear terms were introduced to represent the behavior near the fracture toughness and during the creep-fatigue interaction. Through the model implementation and validation of the proposed model, the correlation coefficient is higher than 0.9 on ten out of twelve sets of experimental data, revealing the accuracy of the proposed model. This work contributes to an enrichment of creep-fatigue crack growth data in the typical nickel-based superalloy at elevated temperatures and could be referable in the modeling for damage tolerance assessment of turbine disks.


2011 ◽  
Vol 465 ◽  
pp. 47-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen D. Antolovich ◽  
Robert L. Amaro ◽  
Richard W. Neu ◽  
A Staroselsky

In a world increasingly concerned with environmental factors and efficient use of resources, increasing operating temperatures of high temperature machinery can play an important role in meeting these goals. In addition, the cost of failure of such devices is rapidly becoming prohibitive. For example, in an airline crash airframe and engine manufacturers are, on average, held liable for 1,000,000 euros per fatality excluding the loss of property. Thus there is considerable pressure to make machinery that can operate much more safely at high temperatures. This means that the old ways of guarding against high temperature fatigue failure (e.g. factor of safety, S/N curves, creep life) are no longer acceptable; more reliable, accurate, and efficient means are needed to manage life, durability and risk. In this paper, high temperature fatigue is considered in terms of past successes and current challenges. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding damage mechanisms and their interactions both in terms of scientific interest and technological importance. Materials used in nuclear reactors (e.g. selected steels and solid solution Ni-base alloys) and in hot sections of jet engines (e.g. superalloys) are used as vehicles to illustrate damage evolution and interaction. Phenomenological life prediction models are presented and compared with physics-based damage evolution/interaction models which are based on observed physical processes such as creep/fatigue/environment interactions. It is shown that in many cases, in spite of the emphasis on creep-fatigue interactions, the most damaging forms of damage that occur under thermo-mechanical fatigue (TMF) loading result from the interaction of slip bands with oxidized boundaries.


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