Creep Life Evaluations of ASME B31.1 Allowance for Variation From Normal Operations: 11 Materials

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin J. Cohn ◽  
Ron Haupt
Keyword(s):  
Base Metal ◽  
Rupture Life ◽  
Creep Damage ◽  
Creep Rupture ◽  
Creep Life ◽  
Material Creep ◽  
Metal Creep ◽  
Life Consumption ◽  
Rupture Properties ◽  
Design Pressure

Abstract The ASME B31.1-2018 Power Piping Code (Code) paras. 102.2.4, 102.3.3, and 104.8.2 provide an allowance regarding operating above the design temperature and design pressure for short time periods. The concept of allowing occasional operation for short periods of time at higher than the design pressure or design temperature has been in the Code since 1967. These 1967 Code para. 102.2.4 limitations were based on engineering judgment that can now be quantitatively evaluated for the additional creep life consumption (creep rupture damage accumulation). This study primarily is a quantitative estimate of the permitted increased life consumption, considering minimum creep rupture properties, associated with the 2018 Code operating allowances for piping materials operating in the creep range. Eleven base metal materials are considered in this paper — low carbon steel, 1.25Cr 0.5Mo, 2.25Cr 1Mo, 9Cr 1 Mo V, Type 304 SS, Type 316 SS, Type 316L SS, Type 321 SS, Type 321H SS, Type 347 SS, and Type 347H SS. Results of this evaluation may be used to improve the ASME B31.1 Code, including a technical basis for a possible revision to para. 102.2.4. Previous studies have revealed that Grade P22 base metal creep damage is slightly more sensitive to stress than Grade P11 material creep rupture damage, and Grade P91 base metal creep damage is substantially more sensitive to stress than Grade P22 material creep rupture damage. Therefore, the allowable pressure and temperature variations result in a range of increased creep life consumption for different materials. The intent of this study was to modify the two Code allowance criteria so that the permitted increased creep life consumption (considering the minimum creep rupture properties of the material) of Allowance B is about the same amount as the increased creep life consumption result of Allowance A for the same material. Consequently, this study was performed to realign the allowable increased creep rupture life consumption of Allowance B to be approximately equivalent to the allowable increased creep life consumption of Allowance A. If the Allowance B event duration is increased from 80 hours per year to 400 hours per year, the Allowance B increased creep life consumption is slightly less than the Allowance A life consumption for each of these materials.

Creep Life Evaluations of ASME B31.1 Allowance for Variation From Normal Operation

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin J. Cohn
Keyword(s):  
Base Metal ◽  
Rupture Life ◽  
Creep Damage ◽  
Creep Rupture ◽  
Normal Operation ◽  
Piping System ◽  
Stress Increase ◽  
Material Creep ◽  
Metal Creep ◽  
Life Consumption

The ASME B31.1-2012 Power Piping Code (Code) paras. 102.2.4, 102.3.3, and 104.8.2 provide an allowance regarding operating above the design temperature and internal pressure for short time periods. This study is an evaluation of the permitted increased life consumption associated with the above Code operating allowances for piping materials operating in the creep range. Three base metal materials are considered in this study, ASTM A335 Grades P11, P22, and P91. Two case studies were evaluated, A) 15% stress increase for 10% of the operating hours, and B) 20% stress increase for 1% of the operating hours. It was determined that these allowances increased the base metal creep rupture life consumption of Grade P11 material up to 8%, Grade P22 material up to 14%, and Grade P91 material up to 25%. Allowance A results in permitting significantly more creep damage life consumption than Allowance B. Main steam and hot reheat piping system typical operating temperatures and stresses were evaluated for these variation allowances. This study revealed that Grade P22 base metal creep damage is slightly more sensitive to stress than Grade P11 material creep rupture damage, and Grade P91 base metal creep damage is substantially more sensitive to stress than Grade P22 material creep rupture damage.

Creep Life Evaluations of ASME B31.1 Allowance for Variation From Normal Operation

2016 ◽  
Vol 138 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin J. Cohn
Keyword(s):  
Base Metal ◽  
Creep Damage ◽  
Creep Rupture ◽  
Normal Operation ◽  
Piping System ◽  
Creep Life ◽  
Stress Increase ◽  
Material Creep ◽  
Metal Creep ◽  
Life Consumption

The ASME B31.1-2012 Power Piping Code (Code) paras. 102.2.4, 102.3.3, and 104.8.2 provide an allowance regarding operating above the design temperature and internal pressure for short time periods. This study is a quantitative evaluation of the permitted increased life consumption associated with the 2012 Code operating allowances for piping materials operating in the creep range. Three base metal materials are considered in this paper—ASTM A335 Grades P11, P22, and P91. Results of this evaluation could be used to improve the ASME B31.1 Code, including a technical basis for a recommended revision. The para. 102.2.4 allowables were evaluated: (A) 15% stress increase for 10% of the operating hours and (B) 20% stress increase for 1% of the operating hours. It was determined that these allowances increased the base metal creep rupture life consumption of Grade P11 material up to 8%, Grade P22 material up to 14%, and Grade P91 material up to 25%. Allowance A results in permitting significantly more creep life consumption than Allowance B. An evaluation was performed to realign the increased creep life consumption of Allowance B to be approximately equivalent to the increased creep life consumption of Allowance A. If Allowance B event duration is increased from 80 hrs per year to 400 hrs per year (from 1% to 5% of the operating hours per year), Allowance B increased the creep life consumption which is slightly less than Allowance A life consumption for Grades P11, P22, and P91 materials. Main steam (MS) and hot reheat (HRH) piping system typical operating temperatures and stresses were evaluated for these variation allowances. This study revealed that Grade P22 base metal creep damage is slightly more sensitive to stress than Grade P11 material creep rupture damage, and Grade P91 base metal creep damage is substantially more sensitive to stress than Grade P22 material creep rupture damage.

Enhanced Creep Life Evaluations for Grade 91 Circumferential Weldments

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin J. Cohn
Keyword(s):  
Applied Stress ◽  
Hoop Stress ◽  
Axial Stress ◽  
Creep Damage ◽  
Creep Rupture ◽  
Piping System ◽  
Remaining Life ◽  
Creep Life ◽  
Rupture Properties ◽  
Applied Stresses

The basic power piping creep life calculations consider the important variables of time, temperature and stress for the creep rupture properties of the unique material. Some engineering evaluations of remaining life estimate the applied stress as the design stress obtained from a conventional piping stress analysis. Other remaining life evaluations may assume that a conservative estimate of the applied stress is no greater than the hoop stress due to pressure. The creep rupture properties of the unique material are usually obtained from the base material creep rupture properties. The typical methodologies to estimate remaining life do not consider the actual applied stress due to malfunctioning supports, multiaxial stress effects, axial and through-wall creep redistribution, time-dependent material-specific weldment creep rupture properties, residual welding stresses, and actual operating temperatures and pressures. It has been determined that the initiation and propagation of Grade 91 creep damage is a function of stress to about the power of 9 at higher applied stresses. There have been many examples of malfunctioning piping supports creating unintended high stresses. When the axial stress is nearly as high as the hoop stress, the applicable corresponding uniaxial stress for creep rupture life is increased about 30%. Multiaxial stress effects in circumferential weldments (e.g., when the axial stress is nearly as high as the hoop stress) can reduce the weldment creep life to less than 1/6th of the predicted life assuming a uniaxial stress or hoop stress due to pressure only. Since 2012, the ASME B31.1 Code has required that significant piping displacement variations from the expected design displacements shall be considered to assess the piping system’s integrity [1]. This paper discusses a strategy for an enhanced creep life evaluation of power piping circumferential weldments. Piping stresses can vary by a factor greater than 2.0. Consequently, the range of circumferential weldment creep rupture lives for a single piping system may vary by a factor as high as 40. Although there is uncertainty in the operating times at temperatures and pressures, all of the weldments within the piping system have the same time, temperatures, and pressures, so the corresponding uncertainties for these three attributes are normalized within the same piping system. Since the applied stresses are the most important weld-to-weld variable within a piping system, it is necessary to have an accurate evaluation of the applied stresses to properly rank the creep rupture lives of the circumferential weldments. This methodology has been successfully used to select the lead-the-fleet creep damage in circumferential weldments over the past 15 years.

A Comparative Study of the Creep Rupture Properties of Type 316 Stainless Steel Base and Weld Metals

1993 ◽  
Vol 115 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Mathew ◽  
G. Sasikala ◽  
S. L. Mannan ◽  
P. Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Weld Metal ◽  
Base Metal ◽  
Creep Damage ◽  
Creep Rupture ◽  
Rupture Ductility ◽  
Damage And Fracture ◽  
Steel Weld Metal ◽  
Identical Test ◽  
Rupture Properties

Creep rupture properties of a modified grade of type E316-15 stainless steel weld metal have been studied in the temperature range 823 to 923 K at different stress levels. The results are compared with the creep properties of the base metal under identical test conditions. Rupture lives of the weld metal were found to be lower than those of the base metal by a factor of five to ten. Minimum creep rates of the weld metal were usually higher than those of the base metal whereas the rupture ductility of the weld metal was generally higher at 823 and 873 K and lower at 923 K. Differences in the microstructural changes, creep damage and fracture behaviour between the weld and the base metals have also been investigated.

Effects of microstructure and lattice misfit on creep life of Ni-based single crystal superalloy during long-term thermal exposure

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenyan Gan ◽  
Hangshan Gao ◽  
Haiqing Pei ◽  
Zhixun Wen
Keyword(s):  
Single Crystal ◽  
Rupture Life ◽  
Precipitation Amount ◽  
Lattice Misfit ◽  
Thermal Exposure ◽  
Phase Evolution ◽  
Creep Rupture ◽  
Simultaneous Increase ◽  
Creep Life ◽  
The Matrix

Abstract According to the microstructural evolution during longterm thermal exposure at 1100 °C, the creep rupture life of Ni-based single crystal superalloys at 980 °C/270 MPa was evaluated. The microstructure was characterized by means of scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and related image processing methods. The size of γ’ precipitates and the precipitation amount of topologically close-packed increased with the increase in thermal exposure time, and coarsening of the γ’ precipitates led to the simultaneous increase of the matrix channel width. The relationship between the creep rupture life and the lattice misfit of γ/γ’, the coarsening of γ’ precipitate and the precipitation of TCP phase are systematically discussed. In addition, according to the correlation between γ’ phase evolution and creep characteristics during thermal exposure, a physical model is established to predict the remaining creep life.

scholarly journals Creep rupture properties of bare and coated polycrystalline nickel-based superalloy Rene®80

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-36
Author(s):  
M.M. Barjesteh ◽  
S.M. Abbasi ◽  
K.Z. Madar ◽  
K. Shirvani
Keyword(s):  
Elevated Temperatures ◽  
Life Time ◽  
Creep Rupture ◽  
Polycrystalline Nickel ◽  
Creep Life ◽  
Nickel Based Superalloy ◽  
Platinum Aluminide ◽  
Rupture Properties ◽  
Low Activity ◽  
Rupture Behavior

Creep deformation is one of the life time limiting reasons for gas turbine parts that are subjected to stresses at elevated temperatures. In this study, creep rupture behavior of uncoated and platinum-aluminide coated Rene?80 has been determined at 760?C/657 MPa, 871?C/343 MPa and 982?C/190 Mpa in air. For this purpose, an initial layer of platinum with a thickness of 6?m was applied on the creep specimens. Subsequently, the aluminizing were formed in the conventional pack cementation method via the Low Temperature-High Activity (LTHA) and High Temperature-Low Activity (HTLA) processes. Results of creep-rupture tests showed a decrease in resistance to creep rupture of coated specimen, compared to the uncoated ones. The reductions in rupture lives in LTHA and HTLA methods at 760?C/657 MPa, 871?C/343 MPa and 982?C/190 MPa were almost (26% and 41.8%), (27.6% and 38.5%) and (22.4% and 40.3%), respectively as compared to the uncoated ones. However, the HTLA aluminizing method showed an intense reduction in creep life. Results of fractographic studies on coated and uncoated specimens indicated a combination of ductile and brittle failure mechanisms for all samples. Although, the base failure mode in substrate was grain boundary voids, cracks initiated from coating at 760?C/657MPa and 871?C/343. No cracking in the coating was observed at 982?C/190MPa.

Application and Standard Error Analysis of the Parametric Methods for Predicting the Creep Life of Type 316LN SS

2005 ◽  
Vol 297-300 ◽  
pp. 2272-2277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Woo Gon Kim ◽  
Song Nam Yoon ◽  
Woo Seog Ryu
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Standard Error ◽  
Rupture Life ◽  
Large Error ◽  
Creep Rupture ◽  
Parametric Methods ◽  
Creep Life ◽  
Statistical Process ◽  
316Ln Ss ◽  
Type 316Ln Stainless Steel

To predict the creep-rupture life of type 316LN stainless steels which are major structural components of liquid metal reactors, a number of creep-rupture data were collected through literature survey and experimental data of KAERI. Using the data, the creep-rupture life was analyzed by means of the Larson-Miller, the Orr-Sherby-Dorn and the Manson-Haferd parametric methods. Polynomial equations for predicting the creep life were obtained. In order to analyze the acceptance and use of the parametric methods, standard error values were accurately investigated by statistical process of the creep data. As for the results, the three parametric methods are found to be favorable in predicting the creep life of type 316LN stainless steel. Each method did not generate a large error in the standard error of the estimate with variations of the temperatures, but the Orr-Sherby-Dorn and the Manson-Haferd methods showed a better agreement than the Larson-Miller one. Especially, at higher the 700oC, the Manson-Haferd method conformed well to the experimental data. The reason is because the Manson-Haferd method includes two constants of ta and Ta.

Evaluation of Creep Properties of Alloy 690 Steam Generator Tubes at High Temperature Using Tube Specimen

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jongmin Kim ◽  
Woogon Kim ◽  
Minchul Kim
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Steam Generator ◽  
Creep Test ◽  
Rupture Life ◽  
Creep Rupture ◽  
Severe Accident ◽  
High Temperature Creep ◽  
Creep Life ◽  
Temperature Creep ◽  
Alloy 690

Abstract Thermally induced steam generator (SG) tube failures caused by hot gases from a damaged reactor core can result in a containment bypass event and may lead to release of fission products to the environment. A typical severe accident scenario is a station blackout (SBO) with loss of auxiliary feedwater. Alloy 690 which has increased the Cr content has been replaced for the SG tube due to its high corrosion resistance against stress corrosion cracking (SCC). However, there is lack of research on the high temperature creep rupture and life prediction model of Alloy 690. In this study, creep test was performed to estimate the high temperature creep rupture life of Alloy 690. Based on reported creep data and creep test results of Alloy 690 in this study, creep life extrapolation was carried out using Larson-Miller Parameter (LMP), Orr-Sherby-Dorn (OSD), Manson-Haferd Parameter (MHP), and Wilshire’s approach. And a hyperbolic sine (sinh) function to determine master curves in LMP, OSD and MHP methods was used for improving the creep life estimation of Alloy 690 material.

Capped End, Thin-Wall Tube Creep-Rupture Behavior for Type 316 Stainless Steel

1963 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. H. Rowe ◽  
J. R. Stewart ◽  
K. N. Burgess
Keyword(s):  
Biaxial Tension ◽  
Rupture Life ◽  
Creep Rupture ◽  
Uniaxial Tensile ◽  
Thin Wall ◽  
Rupture Ductility ◽  
Statistical Argument ◽  
Stress Ratios ◽  
Rupture Properties ◽  
Rupture Behavior

The creep-rupture behavior of 34 capped end, thin-wall tubular specimens was correlated with results for 54 uniaxial tensile specimens in tests at 1350 F, 1500 F, and 1650 F. Basic tests established isotropy in creep-rupture properties as well as metallurgical stability for the material used in the study. Significant correlations of creep rate, rupture life, and rupture ductility were established for the cases of stress ratios 1/0 and 2/1 in the biaxial tension quadrant. Data from tests at 1500 F were evaluated for a statistical argument. This same material was subsequently utilized in a high temperature structures research program to be reported separately.

An Estimator for the Influence of Service Temperature on Creep Rupture Life

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin J. Cohn
Keyword(s):  
Rupture Life ◽  
Safety Margin ◽  
Creep Damage ◽  
Creep Rupture ◽  
Accelerated Life ◽  
Approximate Relationship ◽  
Accelerated Creep ◽  
Technical Basis ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The 2001 ASME B31.1 Code (Code) has a warning to the piping designer regarding materials susceptible to creep damage. However, the Code does not prescribe a methodology to determine the accelerated life reduction for a component due to events resulting in operating temperatures in excess of the design temperature. In general, the quantitative evaluation of the service life of a component subject to creep damage is very complex. Nevertheless, the amount of accelerated creep damage due to increased temperature can be approximately estimated. This paper is the technical basis for a recent modification to the Code. It provides an approximate relationship of operating temperature and time for equivalent creep damage of typical power piping materials. Piping designers, plant operators, and plant engineers may use this information as a rough idea of the relationship of temperature and time to maintain an equivalent safety margin on creep rupture life. This evaluation includes a discussion of tolerance to temperature increase for some low chrome ferritic, intermediate chrome martensitic, and austenitic stainless steel alloys.

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