Creep-Environment Interactions of Alloy 617 at Elevated Temperature

Author(s):  
Daejong Kim ◽  
Changheui Jang ◽  
Woo Seog Ryu

Creep behavior and degradation of creep properties of high-temperature materials often limit the lives of components and structures designed to operate for extended period under stress at elevated temperatures. A nickel-base superalloy, Alloy 617 in particular which is considered as a prospective material for hot gas duct and intermediate heat exchanger in very high temperature gas cooled reactor, was studied for creep properties. Creep tests were carried out under various sustained tensile loadings in air and helium environments at temperature of 800°C, 900°C, and 1000°C. Times for 1% creep strain and creep rupture were taken from the short-term creep tests within 1000 hours. Effect of creep-environment interaction on creep strain and changes in viscous deformation properties by dynamic recrystallization were discussed.

2011 ◽  
Vol 462-463 ◽  
pp. 1244-1249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Bapokutty ◽  
Zainuddin Sajuri ◽  
Junaidi Syarif ◽  
A.R. Said

The effect of heat treatment on tensile and creep properties of nickel-base superalloy, Inconel 718 in room and at high temperature was investigated. Solution treatment was applied on the as-received material at 980oC for 1 hour before water quenched followed by double aging treatments at 720oC and 621oC for 8 hours, respectively and then cooled in air. The tensile strength at elevated temperatures of 550oC and 650oC were slightly deteriorated for heat treated and as-received materials. Beside strength, significant difference was observed in the elongation. The elongation of heat treated samples drastically reduced to 4 to 5% only compared to that of the as received materials which exhibited more than 30% elongation. The significant increased in tensile strength is suspected due to the present of γ’, γ” and δ precipitates which pinned the movement of grain boundary and sliding. However, the present of these precipitates caused the material to become harder and brittle. Moreover, the increase in load from 70% to 90% UTS and in temperature significantly accelerated the creep rate.


1989 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Håkan A. Swan ◽  
Colette O'meara

AbstractPreliminary creep tests were performed on SiC whisker reinforced and matrix Si3N4 material fabricated by the NPS technique. The material was extensively crystallised in the as received material, leaving only thin amorphous films surrounding the grains. No improvement in the creep resistance could be detected for the whisker reinforced material. The deformation mechanisms were found to be that of cavitation in the form of microcracks, predominantly at the whisker/matrix interfaces, and the formation of larger cracks. Extensive oxidation of the samples, as a result of high temperature exposure to air, was observed for the materials tested at 1375°C.


2001 ◽  
Vol 687 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.-S. Moon ◽  
L. Anand ◽  
S. M. Spearing

AbstractSilicon in single crystal form has been the material of choice for the first demonstration of the MIT microengine project. However, because it has a relatively low melting temperature, silicon is not an ideal material for the intended operational environment of high temperature and stress. In addition, preliminary work indicates that single crystal silicon has a tendency to undergo localized deformation by slip band formation. Thus it is critical to obtain a better understanding of the mechanical behavior of this material at elevated temperatures in order to properly exploit its capabilities as a structural material. Creep tests in simple compression with n-type single crystal silicon, with low initial dislocation density, were conducted over a temperature range of 900 K to 1200 K and a stress range of 10 MPa to 120 MPa. The compression specimens were machined such that the multi-slip <100> or <111> orientations were coincident with the compression axis. The creep tests reveal that response can be delineated into two broad regimes: (a) in the first regime rapid dislocation multiplication is responsible for accelerating creep rates, and (b) in the second regime an increasing resistance to dislocation motion is responsible for the decelerating creep rates, as is typically observed for creep in metals. An isotropic elasto-viscoplastic constitutive model that accounts for these two mechanisms has been developed in support of the design of the high temperature turbine structure of the MIT microengine.


2011 ◽  
Vol 189-193 ◽  
pp. 1386-1392
Author(s):  
Yan Lou ◽  
Luo Xing Li

Microstructures and creep properties of AM80 alloy with calcium and strontium additions have been investigated by using OM, X-ray diffraction, SEM and creep tests. The results indicate that the as-cast microstructure of the AM80 alloy consists of the α-Mg matrix, bones-shaped Mg17Al12 and lamellar second precipitation phase at grain boundaries. Calcium and strontium can refine the grain size and the secondary phases. Calcium addition results in the formation of a fishbone Al2Ca eutectic phase in AM80 alloy. With the increase of calcium, reticular Al2Ca phase distribute at the grain boundaries. The creep resistance of the AM80 alloy is significantly improved by a small amount of strontium and calcium addition due to the formation of a grain boundary network consisting of the high melting point Al2Ca phase. Microstructure observations performed on the sample after creep testing reveal that the phase is distorted during creep, reflecting its formation in the as-cast microstructure is unbeneficial to creep properties of the AM80 alloy. The creep resistance of the alloy at elevated temperatures was remarkably increased when calcium was added combined with strontium. The highest creep resistance was obtained from the alloy with xSr and y3Ca addition and its steady state creep rate reached as low as 3.941×10-8s-1, one order of magnitude lower than that of alloy AM80 without strontium and calcium additions.


2000 ◽  
Vol 646 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Weller ◽  
A. Chatterjee ◽  
G. Haneczok ◽  
F. Appel ◽  
H. Clemens

ABSTRACTMechanical loss (internal friction) and creep experiments were carried out on specimens of a Ti-46.5at.%Al-4at.%(Cr,Nb,Ta,B) alloy with differently spaced fully lamellar microstructures. The creep tests were performed in a temperature range of 970 K to 1070 K at 175 MPa. For the mechanical loss measurements a low frequency subresonance torsion apparatus was applied, operating in the frequency range of 0.01 Hz to 10 Hz. The mechanical spectra show two phenomena: (i) A loss peak of Debye-type at 900 K (0.01 Hz) which is controlled by an activation enthalpy of 3.0 eV. The loss peak is related to thermally activated (reversible) motion of dislocation segments which are pinned at the lamellae interface and within gamma lamellae. (ii) A viscoelastic high temperature background above 1000 K with an activation enthalpy of 3.8 eV. This value agrees well with the activation enthalpy of 3.6 eV from creep experiments. Both high temperature background as well as creep are assigned to diffusion controlled climb of dislocations.


2005 ◽  
Vol 492-493 ◽  
pp. 545-550
Author(s):  
Gang Chen ◽  
Peng Cheng Zhai ◽  
Ai-Jun Shao

The numerical simulation for the Small Punch creep (SP-C) tests is conducted using a Finite Element method. The objective of the present study is to obtain the deformation states of the SP-C specimen and to estimate the feasibility of SP-C test method for high-temperature creep properties. The emphasis is put on the relationship between the equivalent creep strain and the central deflection of the SP-C specimen. The time history of central deflection and equivalent creep strain is obtained by finite element method and the effects of the load, temperature and material properties on the relationship of central deflection and equivalent creep strain are discussed. From the numerical results, the relationship between the central deflection and the equivalent creep strain is approximately independent of load, temperature, and material properties. As a farther result, the high temperature creep properties of the 12Cr1MoV steel are appraised by numerical simulation. The results are in good agreement with the results from the standard test method. The results indicate that the small punch test technique is an effective method for the evaluation of the high-temperature creep properties of materials.


2019 ◽  
Vol 969 ◽  
pp. 34-40
Author(s):  
R. Ravibharath ◽  
K. Devakumaran ◽  
V. Muthupandi

Ni based super alloy 617 is widely used in transition liners in both aircraft and land-based gas turbines, power plant applications because of its high temperature strength, oxidation resistance and creep properties. Ni based alloys are highly susceptible to hot cracking like solidification and liquation racking issues. In this present work, the susceptibility of alloy 617 to solidification cracking is studied based on the varestraint test. Results of this weldability test proved that in addition to the solidification cracking susceptibility alloy 617 is prone to liquation cracking also. Keywords: Varestraint test, Alloy 617, Solidification cracking, Liquidation cracking.


Author(s):  
Nazrul Islam ◽  
Shahriar Quayyum ◽  
Tasnim Hassan

The study is developing a unified constitutive model for Alloy 617 which is the prime candidate material considered for intermediate heat exchanger (IHX) of next generation nuclear power plant. Alloy 617 can experience long term exposure to elevated temperatures as high as 950°C, however, the ASME design code (Subsection NH) does not include design provisions for this temperature range. In addition, the Draft Alloy 617 Code Case specifies that the inelastic design analysis for temperatures above 649°C must be based on unified constitutive model. Therefore, this study focuses on developing a unified constitutive model to simulate high temperature uniaxial and multiaxial creep-fatigue and creep-ratcheting responses of Alloy 617. As multiaxial response simulation is a key factor for design-by-analysis of IHX, a set of biaxial tests with varying degrees of loading non-proportionality has been performed at different steady temperatures within 25°C–950°C, and with different strain rates and strain ranges. From the tests, it has been observed that temperature, strain rate, strain ranges and non-proportionality of loading path greatly influences the creep-fatigue and creep-ratcheting responses of Alloy 617. Thus, development of a unified constitutive model considering dependence of these parameters is required. The current Chaboche viscoplasticity model with static recovery term can simulate uniaxial responses very well but it overpredicts biaxial ratcheting responses. Hence, a modified Chaboche model has been developed to improve biaxial ratcheting simulations. Multiaxial modeling features of non-proportionality and ratcheting are investigated. These modeling features and improved response simulations are presented in the paper.


2013 ◽  
Vol 401-403 ◽  
pp. 920-923 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Quan Guo ◽  
Hui Chao Shi ◽  
Wu Zhou Meng

An estimation method to predict creep performances of high temperature structural materials has been proposed. The method is to use a simplified and normalized model of stress relaxation to derive creep strain rates and creep strain vs. time curves from stress relaxation measurements through an integrated analytical procedure according to the relationship between stress relaxation and creep. In order to validate the approach, the predicted results are compared to the experimental results of uni-axial isothermal creep tests conducted on 1Cr10NiMoW2VNbN steel with the same temperature of stress relaxation tests. Good agreement between results of relaxation tests and the predicted results indicates that the developed method can be recommended in the creep behavior evaluation of high temperature materials.


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