A Unified Viscoplastic Model for High Temperature Low Cycle Fatigue of Service-Aged P91 Steel

2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Barrett ◽  
T. P. Farragher ◽  
C. J. Hyde ◽  
N. P. O'Dowd ◽  
P. E. O'Donoghue ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Kinematic Hardening ◽  
Fatigue Behavior ◽  
Material Model ◽  
Cyclic Softening ◽  
Flow Rule ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Hyperbolic Sine

The finite element (FE) implementation of a hyperbolic sine unified cyclic viscoplasticity model is presented. The hyperbolic sine flow rule facilitates the identification of strain-rate independent material parameters for high temperature applications. This is important for the thermo-mechanical fatigue of power plants where a significant stress range is experienced during operational cycles and at stress concentration features, such as welds and branched connections. The material model is successfully applied to the characterisation of the high temperature low cycle fatigue behavior of a service-aged P91 material, including isotropic (cyclic) softening and nonlinear kinematic hardening effects, across a range of temperatures and strain-rates.

A Unified Viscoplastic Model for High Temperature Low Cycle Fatigue of Service-Aged P91 Steel

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Barrett ◽  
P. E. O’Donoghue ◽  
S. B. Leen
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Kinematic Hardening ◽  
Material Model ◽  
Fatigue Behaviour ◽  
Cyclic Softening ◽  
Flow Rule ◽  
Strain Rates ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Hyperbolic Sine

The finite element (FE) implementation of a hyperbolic sine unified cyclic viscoplasticity model is presented. The hyperbolic sine flow rule facilitates the identification of strain-rate independent material parameters for high temperature applications. This is important for the thermo-mechanical fatigue of power plant where a significant stress range is experienced during operational cycles and at stress concentration features, such as welds and branch connections. The material model is successfully applied to the characterisation of the high temperature low cycle fatigue behaviour of a service-aged P91 material, including isotropic (cyclic) softening and non-linear kinematic hardening effects, across a range of temperatures and strain-rates.

High-Temperature Low-Cycle Fatigue Behavior of MarBN at 600 °C

2016 ◽  
Vol 138 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Barrett ◽  
Eimear M. O'Hara ◽  
Padraic E. O'Donoghue ◽  
Sean B. Leen
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Kinematic Hardening ◽  
Fatigue Behavior ◽  
Strain Range ◽  
Material Model ◽  
Cyclic Softening ◽  
Cyclic Strength ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Viscoplastic Material

This paper presents the high-temperature low-cycle fatigue (HTLCF) behavior of a precipitate strengthened 9Cr martensitic steel, MarBN, designed to provide enhanced creep strength and precipitate stability at high temperature. The strain-controlled test program addresses the cyclic effects of strain-rate and strain-range at 600 °C, as well as tensile stress-relaxation response. A recently developed unified cyclic viscoplastic material model is implemented to characterize the complex cyclic and relaxation plasticity response, including cyclic softening and kinematic hardening effects. The measured response is compared to that of P91 steel, a current power plant material, and shows enhanced cyclic strength relative to P91.

Component Low Cycle Fatigue Behavior Based on Standard Calculation Procedure and Non-Linear FEA

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Rudolph ◽  
Adrian Willuweit ◽  
Steffen Bergholz ◽  
Christian Philippek ◽  
Jevgenij Kobzarev
Keyword(s):  
Power Plants ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Fatigue Behavior ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
Constitutive Material Model ◽  
Standard Design ◽  
Creep Fatigue

Components of conventional power plants are subject to potential damage mechanisms such as creep, fatigue and their combination. These mechanisms have to be considered in the mechanical design process. Against this general background — as an example — the paper focusses on the low cycle fatigue behavior of a main steam shut off valve. The first design check based on standard design rules and linear Finite Element Analysis (FEA) identifies fatigue sensitive locations and potentially high fatigue usage. This will often occur in the context of flexible operational modes of combined cycle power plants which are a characteristic of the current demands of energy supply. In such a case a margin analysis constitutes a logical second step. It may comprise the identification of a more realistic description of the real operational loads and load-time histories and a refinement of the (creep-) fatigue assessment methods. This constitutes the basis of an advanced component design and assessment. In this work, nonlinear FEA is applied based on a nonlinear kinematic constitutive material model, in order to simulate the thermo-mechanical behavior of the high-Cr steel component mentioned above. The required material parameters are identified based on data of the accessible reference literature and data from an own test series. The accompanying testing campaign was successfully concluded by a series of uniaxial thermo-mechanical fatigue (TMF) tests simulating the most critical load case of the component. This detailed and hybrid approach proved to be appropriate for ensuring the required lifetime period of the component.

scholarly journals Stress-strain response in gears tooth root due to low cycle fatigue

2019 ◽  
Vol 287 ◽  
pp. 02002
Author(s):  
Marina Franulovic ◽  
Kristina Markovic ◽  
Zdravko Herceg
Keyword(s):  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Kinematic Hardening ◽  
Material Model ◽  
Strain Response ◽  
Tooth Root ◽  
Loading Conditions ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Stress Strain ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Damage Initiation

Gears are mechanical components which experience high dynamic loading during their exploitation period. Therefore, their load carrying capacity together with life expectancy are often the main research interest in various studies. The research presented in this paper is focused on the materials response in spur gears tooth root, with the attention given to the repeated overloads during gears operation. In order to simulate low cycle fatigue by using numerical modeling of stress - strain relationship within material, the material model which takes into account isotropic and kinematic hardening is used here. Material response of specimens produced out of steel 42CrMo4 in different loading conditions is used for the calibration of material model, which is then applied to simulate damage initiation and materials stress - strain response in gears tooth root. The results show that materials response to the given loading conditions non-linearly change through the loading cycles.

High-temperature low-cycle fatigue behavior and microstructural evolution of an improved austenitic ODS steel

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (12) ◽  
pp. 1814-1821 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ankur Chauhan ◽  
Dimitri Litvinov ◽  
Tim Gräning ◽  
Jarir Aktaa
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Microstructural Evolution ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Fatigue Behavior ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Ods Steel ◽  
Image Position

Abstract

Cyclic Softening Effect on Design Margin of JLF-1 Steel

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huailin Li
Keyword(s):  
Elevated Temperature ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Fatigue Behavior ◽  
Cyclic Softening ◽  
Fatigue Properties ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Softening Effect ◽  
As Stress ◽  
Supercritical Water Cooled Reactor ◽  
Design Margin

A reduced-activation ferritic/martensitic (RAF/M) steel, JLF-1, is considered as one of the candidate structure material of the fusion reactors and supercritical water-cooled reactor (SCWR). Low cycle fatigue properties of JLF-1 steel at elevated temperature are the design base to provide adequate design margin against postulated mechanism that could experience during its design life, such as stress range, plastic deformation, and cyclic softening etc. However, the reduction in design margin is significant when the cyclic softening happens in cyclic deformation at RT, 673K, 873K. Thus, for the application as the structural materials, it is necessary to evaluate low cycle fatigue behavior and cyclic softening of JLF-1 steel at elevated temperature since those properties of material at elevated temperature are the key issue for design.

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