Developments in Parametric Methods for Handling Creep and Creep-Rupture Data

1979 ◽  
Vol 101 (4) ◽  
pp. 326-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain Le May

The development of parametric methods for handling creep and creep-rupture data is briefly reviewed. The applicability of such methods to handling creep strain and creep strain rate data is emphasized, and relationships between optimum parametric methods and deformation mechanisms are discussed. Future directions for study are suggested in the light of recent work.

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-252
Author(s):  
Balhassn S. M. Ali ◽  
Tom H. Hyde ◽  
Wei Sun

AbstractCommonly used small creep specimen types, such as ring and impression creep specimens, are capable of providing minimum creep strain rate data from small volumes of material. However, these test types are unable to provide the creep rupture data. In this paper the recently developed two-bar specimen type, which can be used to obtain minimum creep strain rate and creep rupture creep data from small volumes of material, is described. Conversion relationships are used to convert (i) the applied load to the equivalent uniaxial stress, and (ii) the load line deformation rate to the equivalent uniaxial creep strain rate. The effects of the specimen dimension ratios on the conversion factors are also discussed in this paper. This paper also shows comparisons between two-bar specimen creep test data and the corresponding uniaxial creep test data, for grade P91 steel at 650°C.


ROTASI ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
I. M. W. Ekaputra ◽  
Gunawan Dwi Haryadi

In this study, the creep strain rate characteristics of austenitic 316L stainless steel was investigated from the uniaxial creep-rupture test. The tests were conducted under various applied load levels with a constant temperature at 525oC. The creep exponent was obtained by applying a Norton’s law equation on a regression line of creep strain rate vs. stress curve. The steel clearly showed an instantaneous primary stage, following with the secondary and tertiary stages on the creep curve. It was found that the creep rupture time decreased systematically with an increase in the stress. The secondary stage of creep curve almost dominated the creep’s lifetime. Therefore, the creep strain rate was determined from the minimum strain rate on this stage. The obtained creep exponent indicated that the responsible creep mechanism was grain boundary sliding or diffusional creep mechanism


2000 ◽  
Vol 646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haruyuki Inui ◽  
Koji Ishikawa ◽  
Masaharu Yamaguchi

ABSTRACTEffects of ternary additions on the deformation behavior of single crystals of MoSi2 with the hard [001] and soft [0 15 1] orientations have been investigated in compression and compression creep. The alloying elements studied include V, Cr, Nb and Al that form a C40 disilicide with Si and W and Re that form a C11b disilicide with Si. The addition of Al is found to decrease the yield strength of MoSi2 at all temperatures while the additions of V, Cr and Nb are found to decrease the yield strength at low temperatures and to increase the yield strength at high temperatures. In contrast, the additions of W and Re are found to increase the yield strength at all temperatures. The creep strain rate for the [001] orientation is significantly lower than that for the [0 15 1] orientation. The creep strain rate for both orientations is significantly improved by alloying with ternary elements such as Re and Nb.


Geofluids ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Fan Zhang ◽  
Jianjian Zhao ◽  
Dawei Hu ◽  
Qian Sheng ◽  
Jianfu Shao

Fluid flow and fluid-rock interaction mainly take place in fracture network, consequently resulting in deformation and permeability variation of rock and deterioration of the wellbore performance. Mechanical-reactive flow coupling creep tests are performed on cracked granite under various confining pressures and acid and alkaline solution flows. The testing results show that the confining pressure and solution pH significantly influence the creep deformation, creep strain rate, and permeability. A primary creep stage and secondary creep stage are observed in all creep tests in this study; notably, the sample under a confining pressure of 10 MPa and acid solution injection undergoes creep failure for over 2700 hours. The acid solution has a more obvious influence on the creep behavior than that of the alkaline solution. With an increase in confining pressure, the total creep strain and creep strain rate in the samples gradually decrease during the injection of either solution. The permeability of the samples injected with either solution gradually deceases during the testing process, and this deceasing rate increases with the confining pressure. The scanning electron microscopy observations on the crack surfaces after the creep tests show that the surfaces of the fractures injected with the acid solution are smooth due to the dissolution of the matrix, while those injected with the alkaline solution include voids due to the dissolution of quartz. These experimental results could improve the understanding of the long-term transport and mechanical behaviors of wellbore.


Author(s):  
Takashi Ogata

Grade 91 is widely used for steam pipes and tubes in high temperature boilers of ultra-super critical power plants in Japan. It was reported that creep damage may initiate at the fine grain region within the heat affected zone (HAZ) in welded joints prior to the base metal, so called “Type IV” damage, which causes steam leakage in existing power plants. Therefore, development of creep damage assessment methods is not only an important but also an urgent subject to maintain operation reliability. In order to evaluate creep damage of welded joints based on finite element analyses, creep deformation properties of a base metal, a weld metal and a HAZ have to be obtained from creep tests. However, it is difficult to cut a standard size creep specimen from the HAZ region. Only a miniature size specimen is available from the narrow HAZ region. Therefore, development of creep testing and evaluation technique for miniature size specimens is highly expected. In this study, a miniature tensile type solid bar specimen with 1mm diameter was machined from a base metal, a weld metal and a HAZ of a new and a used Grade 91 welded joints, and creep tests of these miniature specimens were conducted by using a special developed creep testing machine. It was found that creep deformation property is almost identical between the base metal and weld metal, and creep strain rate of the HAZ is much faster than that of these metals in the new welded joint. Relationships between stress and creep strain rates of the base metal and the HAZ in the used welded joint are within scatter bands of those in the new material. On the other hand, creep strain rate of the weld metal in the used welded joint became much faster than that in the new one. Then both the standard size and the miniature size cross weld specimens were machined from the new and the used welded joints and were tested under the same temperature and stress conditions. Rupture time of the miniature cross weld specimen is much shorter than that of the standard size cross weld specimen. The finite element creep analysis of the specimens indicates that higher triaxiality stress yields within the HAZ of the standard size specimen than that of the miniature specimen causing faster creep strain rate in the HAZ of the miniature cross weld specimen.


2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 267-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. D. HAN ◽  
H. Y. JING ◽  
S. M. L. NAI ◽  
L. Y. XU ◽  
C. M. TAN ◽  
...  

In the present study, nanoindentation studies of the 95.8 Sn -3.5 Ag -0.7 Cu lead-free solder were conducted over a range of maximum loads from 20 mN to 100 mN, under a constant ramp rate of 0.05 s-1. The indentation scale dependence of creep behavior was investigated. The results revealed that the creep rate, creep strain rate and indentation stress are all dependent on the indentation depth. As the maximum load increased, an increasing trend in the creep rate was observed, while a decreasing trend in creep strain rate and indentation stress were observed. On the contrary, for the case of stress exponent value, no trend was observed and the values were found to range from 6.16 to 7.38. Furthermore, the experimental results also showed that the creep mechanism of the lead-free solder is dominated by dislocation climb.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (22) ◽  
pp. 6966
Author(s):  
Qian Li ◽  
Jiayong Zhang ◽  
Huayuan Tang ◽  
Hongwu Zhang ◽  
Hongfei Ye ◽  
...  

Based on molecular dynamics simulations, the creep behaviors of nanocrystalline Ni before and after the segregation of Mo atoms at grain boundaries are comparatively investigated with the influences of external stress, grain size, temperature, and the concentration of Mo atoms taken into consideration. The results show that the creep strain rate of nanocrystalline Ni decreases significantly after the segregation of Mo atoms at grain boundaries due to the increase of the activation energy. The creep mechanisms corresponding to low, medium, and high stress states are respectively diffusion, grain boundary slip and dislocation activities based on the analysis of stress exponent and grain size exponent for both pure Ni and segregated Ni-Mo samples. Importantly, the influence of external stress and grain size on the creep strain rate of segregated Ni-Mo samples agrees well with the classical Bird-Dorn-Mukherjee model. The results also show that segregation has little effect on the creep process dominated by lattice diffusion. However, it can effectively reduce the strain rate of the creep deformation dominated by grain boundary behaviors and dislocation activities, where the creep rate decreases when increasing the concentration of Mo atoms at grain boundaries within a certain range.


Author(s):  
Ricardo Vega ◽  
Calvin Stewart

Abstract Numerous minimum-creep-strain-rate laws exist, creating a challenge in determining which is best for a given material database. The objective of this study is to validate the applicability of a “metamodel” and its ability to model the minimum creep strain rate (MCR). A metamodel is a model that can combine and regress into different base models, in this case, seven established MCR models. The metamodel can be exploited using a calibration algorithm to rapidly calibrate the base models. The metamodel contains ten terms and eight material constants (one is a constraint, and another is stress as an input variable). Using the metamodel and calibration software, the user can determine the best MCR model for a given material database. Using the software, the metamodel is calibrated in two approaches: constrained and pseudo-constrained. The constrained approach restricts the metamodel to regress directly into one of the base models, allowing for the base models to be equally calibrated and compared alongside each other. The pseudo-constrained approach freely optimizes all eight of the metamodel material constants; however, the metamodel is modified to include 5 Heaviside function constants that turn on/off sections of the metamodel to increase the statistical-dependencies of the final model. This pseudo-constrained approach has the potential to identify novel MCR models that exist at the interface between the seven base models. Alloy data for 9Cr-1Mo-V-Nb (ASTM P91) was used with a total of 89 points which extended over a total of three isotherms: 600°C, 625°C, and 650°C. The MCR model that best fit the data was the Johnson-Henderson-Kahn model.


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