Analytical Expression of Elastic Follow-Up Factors in Fully-Plastic Situation for Creep-Fatigue Damage Assessment of High Temperature Components

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terutaka Fujioka
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
Simple Method ◽  
High Temperature Component ◽  
Creep Fatigue ◽  
Temperature Component ◽  
High Temperature Components ◽  
Life Consumption

To assess creep-fatigue life consumption in a high temperature component, strain ranges and stress relaxation histories are needed to be estimated. Inelastic finite element analysis may provide these structural responses. Performing inelastic FEA is, however, usually costly, and thus simple elastic FEA-route methods to estimate these are preferred to in some practical cases. A simple method employed in a design code for the Japanese proto-type fast breeder reactor uses an elastic follow-up factor, and is applicable for components subjected to cyclic secondary stresses. A cantilever model was employed to illustrate theoretical background for this method, and lead to a default value of three for gross elastic follow-up factor for the simplicity and conservatism. Validity of this method, however, has never been confirmed theoretically for general conditions of geometry, loading, and material properties. This paper describes characteristics of the factor based on theoretical investigations of a generally-shaped component subjected to a displacement-controlled loading. Some supporting numerical examples are shown by performing elastic-plastic FEA of a notched cylinder.

Monitoring Crack Propagation of High Pressure and High Temperature Components by Multi-Physics Numerical Analysis Approach

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamid R. Ahmadi Moghaddam ◽  
Pierre Mertiny
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Numerical Analysis ◽  
Crack Propagation ◽  
Interaction Analysis ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
High Temperature Component ◽  
Sensor Device ◽  
Temperature Component ◽  
High Temperature Components

The safety of high pressure and high temperature components is paramount, and therefore, developing effective and reliable methodologies to improve the prediction of crack propagation is an important task. The present paper describes and demonstrates a multi-physics numerical analysis approach for assessing crack propagation using a sensor device. This method employs a coupled structural-thermal-electric analysis in conjunction with a thermal-fluid-structure interaction analysis to study the structural health of a high pressure and high temperature component.

Hydrogen-Induced Mechanical Losses in Oxygen-Free Copper

2012 ◽  
Vol 184 ◽  
pp. 122-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mykola Ivanchenko ◽  
Yuriy Yagodzinskyy ◽  
H. Hänninen
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Internal Friction ◽  
Oxygen Content ◽  
Hydrogen Atoms ◽  
Internal Friction Peak ◽  
Exponential Factor ◽  
Hydrogen Charging ◽  
High Temperature Component ◽  
Temperature Component ◽  
High Temperature Components

Two oxygen-free copper grades with purity of 99.99 % were studied by means of free decay inverted torsion pendulum at the temperature range of 90 – 300 K and frequencies of 0.5 – 2 Hz. One copper grade was oxygen free electrolytically refined copper with oxygen content of 1.2 wt. ppm. The other one was oxygen-free phosphorous-alloyed grade with oxygen content less than 5 wt. ppm and phosphorous content of 30 – 70 wt. ppm. Electrochemical hydrogen charging induces a complex internal friction peak in the studied copper grades. The observed internal friction peak has a relaxation origin with apparent activation enthalpy and pre-exponential factor for the oxygen-free grade of 0.276 ± 0.002 eV and 10-11.59 ± 0.08 s, respectively. The internal friction peak can be fitted by three broadened Debye peaks (P1, P2 and P3) with activation enthalpies and pre-exponential factors of 0.248 ± 0.003 eV and 10-11.4 ± 0.4 s; 0.297 ± 0.004 eV and 10-11.8 ± 0.2 s; 0.36 ± 0.04 eV and 10-12.7 ± 1.4 s, respectively. Phosphorous doping markedly reduces the height of the observed peak. It was also shown that prior deformation by tension suppresses high-temperature components of the complex internal friction peak. Mechanism of relaxation is presumably caused by interaction of H – H pairs (low-temperature component, peak P1), interaction of hydrogen atoms with dislocations (P2) and interaction of hydrogen with impurities (high-temperature component, peak P3). Absorption of hydrogen in the studied copper grades during electrochemical hydrogen charging was confirmed by the thermal desorption method.

Creep-Fatigue Life Prediction for Aeroengine’s High Temperature Component

2014 ◽  
Vol 670-671 ◽  
pp. 1083-1086
Author(s):  
Yi Rui Xia ◽  
Jing Tao Dai ◽  
Zhong Yun Sun
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Life Prediction ◽  
Fatigue Life Prediction ◽  
Prediction Methods ◽  
Engineering Applications ◽  
High Temperature Component ◽  
Development Direction ◽  
Creep Fatigue ◽  
Temperature Component

In this paper, the key technique involved in life prediction of aeroengine’s high temperature component for creep and fatigue/creep interaction, namely, the life prediction methods for high temperature component are discussed systematically. The essential thinking、features and development direction of the theories are commented in detail. All the results obtained are valuable to engineering applications.

Creative Design-by-Analysis Solutions Applied to High-Temperature Components

1993 ◽  
Vol 115 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-227
Author(s):  
A. K. Dhalla
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Structural Response ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
Finite Element Software ◽  
Division 1 ◽  
High Temperature Components ◽  
Elevated Temperature Design

Elevated temperature design has evolved over the last two decades from design-by-formula philosophy of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Sections I and VIII (Division 1), to the design-by-analysis philosophy of Section III, Code Case N-47. The benefits of design-by-analysis procedures, which were developed under a US-DOE-sponsored high-temperature structural design (HTSD) program, are illustrated in the paper through five design examples taken from two U.S. liquid metal reactor (LMR) plants. Emphasis in the paper is placed upon the use of a detailed, nonlinear finite element analysis method to understand the structural response and to suggest design optimization so as to comply with Code Case N-47 criteria. A detailed analysis is cost-effective, if selectively used, to qualify an LMR component for service when long-lead-time structural forgings, procured based upon simplified preliminary analysis, do not meet the design criteria, or the operational loads are increased after the components have been fabricated. In the future, the overall costs of a detailed analysis will be reduced even further with the availability of finite element software used on workstations or PCs.

Application of Damage Mechanics and Polynomial Chaos Expansion for Lifetime Prediction of High-Temperature Components Under Creep-Fatigue Loading

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Koelzow ◽  
Muhammad Mohsin Khan ◽  
Christian Kontermann ◽  
Matthias Oechsner
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Damage Mechanics ◽  
Fatigue Loading ◽  
Probabilistic Methods ◽  
Lifetime Prediction ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Creep Fatigue ◽  
High Temperature Components ◽  
Mechanics Concepts

Abstract Several (accumulative) lifetime models were developed to assess the lifetime consumption of high-temperature components of steam and gas turbine power plants during flexible operation modes. These accumulative methods have several drawbacks, e.g. that measured loading profiles cannot be used within accumulative lifetime methods without manual corrections, and cannot be combined directly to sophisticated probabilistic methods. Although these methods are widely accepted and used for years, the accumulative lifetime prediction procedures need improvement regarding the lifetime consumption of thermal power plants during flexible operation modes. Furthermore, previous investigations show that the main influencing factor from the materials perspective, the critical damage threshold, cannot be statistically estimated from typical creep-fatigue experiments due to massive experimental effort and a low amount of available data. This paper seeks to investigate simple damage mechanics concepts applied to high-temperature components under creep-fatigue loading to demonstrate that these methods can overcome some drawbacks and use improvement potentials of traditional accumulative lifetime methods. Furthermore, damage mechanics models do not provide any reliability information, and the assessment of the resultant lifetime prediction is nearly impossible. At this point, probabilistic methods are used to quantify the missing information concerning failure probabilities and sensitivities and thus, the combination of both provides rigorous information for engineering judgment. Nearly 50 low cycle fatigue experiments of a high chromium cast steel, including dwell times and service-type cycles, are used to investigate the model properties of a simple damage evolution equation using the strain equivalence hypothesis. Furthermore, different temperatures from 300 °C to 625 °C and different strain ranges from 0.35% to 2% were applied during the experiments. The determination of the specimen stiffness allows a quantification of the damage evolution during the experiment. The model parameters are determined by Nelder-Mead optimization procedure, and the dependencies of the model parameters concerning to different temperatures and strain ranges are investigated. In this paper, polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) is used for uncertainty propagation of the model uncertainties while using non-intrusive methods (regression techniques). In a further post-processing step, the computed PCE coefficients of the damage variable are used to determine the probability of failure as a function of cycles and evolution of the probability density function (pdf). Except for the selected damage mechanics model which is considered simple, the advantages of using damage mechanics concepts combined with sophisticated probabilistic methods are presented in this paper.

A Viscoplastic Model for Alloy 617 for Use With the ASME Section III, Division 5 Design by Inelastic Analysis Rules

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. C. Messner ◽  
T.-L. Sham
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Alloy 617 ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
Material Models ◽  
Experimental Database ◽  
Viscoplastic Model ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Inelastic Analysis ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Creep Fatigue

Abstract The rules for the design of high temperature reactor components in Section III, Division 5, Subsection HB, Subpart B (HBB) of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code contain two options for evaluating the deformation-controlled design limits on strain accumulation and creep-fatigue: design by elastic analysis and design by inelastic analysis. Of these options design by inelastic analysis tends to be less overconservative and produce more efficient designs. However, the HBB currently does not provide approved material models for use with the inelastic analysis rules, limiting their widespread use. A nonmandatory appendix has been developed to provide general guidance on appropriate material models and provide reference material models suitable for use with the design by inelastic analysis approach. This paper describes a viscoplastic model for Alloy 617 suitable for use with the HBB rules proposed for incorporation into the new appendix. The model represents the high temperature creep, creep-fatigue, and tensile response of Alloy 617 and accurately accounts for rate sensitivity across a wide range of temperatures. The focus in developing the model was on capturing key features of material deformation required for accurately executing the HBB rules and on developing a relatively simple model form that can be implemented in commercial finite element analysis software. The paper validates the model against an extensive experimental database collected as part of the Alloy 617 Code qualification effort as well as against specialized experimental tests examining the effect of elastic follow up on stress relaxation and creep deformation in the material.

High temperature component design

1985 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 365-371
Author(s):  
H.-J. Seehafer ◽  
M. Becker ◽  
E. Bodmann
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
High Temperature Component ◽  
Component Design ◽  
Temperature Component

An Evaluation of Creep-Fatigue Damage for the Prototype Process Heat Exchanger of the NHDD Plant

2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyeong-Yeon Lee ◽  
Kee-Nam Song ◽  
Yong-Wan Kim ◽  
Sung-Deok Hong ◽  
Hong-Yune Park
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element Analysis ◽  
Finite Element ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Fatigue Damage ◽  
Inlet Temperature ◽  
Alloy 617 ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
Creep Fatigue ◽  
Process Heat ◽  
Very High

A process heat exchanger (PHE) transfers the heat generated from a nuclear reactor to a sulfur-iodine hydrogen production system in the Nuclear Hydrogen Development and Demonstration, and was subjected to very high temperature up to 950°C. An evaluation of creep-fatigue damage, for a prototype PHE, has been carried out from finite element analysis with the full three dimensional model of the PHE. The inlet temperature in the primary side of the PHE was 950°C with an internal pressure of 7 MPa, while the inlet temperature in the secondary side of the PHE is 500°C with internal pressure of 4 MPa. The candidate materials of the PHE were Alloy 617 and Hastelloy X. In this study, only the Alloy 617 was considered because the high temperature design code is available only for Alloy 617. Using the full 3D finite element analysis on the PHE model, creep-fatigue damage evaluation at very high temperature was carried out, according to the ASME Draft Code Case for Alloy 617, and technical issues in the Draft Code Case were raised.

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