Investigating the stress level impact on the creep rupture behaviour of 2195-T84 Al-Li alloy: Experimental and constitutive modelling

2020 ◽  
pp. 105678952097674
Author(s):  
He Li ◽  
Lihua Zhan ◽  
Minghui Huang ◽  
Chunhui Liu ◽  
Xing Zhao ◽  
...  

In the present study, the creep rupture behaviour and microstructural evolution of 2195-T84 Al-Li alloy are investigated at different tensile stresses. It is found that as the applied stress during the creep rupture process increases, the corresponding creep strain and creep rate significantly increase. Moreover, the evolution of microstructures, including precipitates, dislocation density and creep cavities at different stages is characterized using a transmission electron microscope (TEM), X-ray diffractometer (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The main strengthening precipitates are identified as T1 (Al2CuLi) and θ′ (Al2Cu) phases. Obtained results show that as the applied stress increases, T1 and θ′ phases are gradually coarsened. This coarsening is more pronounced for θ′ phase. Furthermore, the creep cavities are mainly distributed at the interface between the insoluble second phase particles and the matrix, and their average sizes gradually increase as the applied stress increases. Meanwhile, the density and size of dimples on the fracture surface gradually decrease as the applied stress increases. Moreover, the main fracture mechanism changes from transgranular dimple fracture to quasi-cleavage fracture. Based on the microstructural evolution, a novel set of unified creep rupture constitutive model is proposed. The established model incorporates the evolution of microstructures, including the dislocation density, average length of T1 and θ′ precipitates and creep cavitation, and correlates microstructural variables with creep rate. The results calculated by the constitutive model are in good agreement with the experimental data, which validates the proposed model.

Author(s):  
Joseph A. Daleo ◽  
Keith A. Ellison ◽  
David A. Woodford

Stress relaxation and constant displacement rate tensile tests were performed on poly-crystalline GTD111 alloy material removed from General Electric MS6001B first stage combustion turbine buckets. Samples were examined in the standard heat treated condition, thermally exposed at 900°C for 5000 hours and from service run buckets. Creep rates of the material were measured and evaluated directly in terms of temperature capability at 850°C and 900°C. Stress relaxation tests done at 0.8% total strain indicated that the creep rate properties in the service exposed airfoil were an order of magnitude higher than the material properties in the standard heat treated condition measured in the root form. In terms of temperature capability, the creep rate properties of the service run airfoil material had decreased by the equivalent of almost 40°C. The stress relaxation test method was demonstrated to be a very useful tool in quantifying the degradation of creep properties in service run components. Creep data that would require years to gather using conventional creep tests was generated in a few days. This now makes realistic life assessment and repair / replace decisions possible during turbine overhauls. The test method’s unique ability to measure changes in creep rate over a large stress range, enabled the technique to distinguish between changes in creep strength due to (normal) microstructural evolution from the combined effects of microstructural evolution and strain related creep damage. A method for estimating standard constant load creep rupture life from the stress relaxation creep rate data is also presented along with time-temperature parameter correlations. The data sets examined in this study indicate that creep rupture lives can be estimated within a factor of three from the stress relaxation data. The information and analysis techniques described in this paper are directly applicable to metallurgical life assessment evaluations and the re-qualification of repaired General Electric buckets in Frame 3, 5, 6, 7 and 9 engine models.


1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Daleo ◽  
K. A. Ellison ◽  
D. A. Woodford

Stress relaxation and constant displacement rate tensile tests were performed on polycrystalline GTD111 alloy material removed from General Electric MS6001B first stage combustion turbine buckets. Samples were examined in the standard heat treated condition, thermally exposed at 900°C for 5000 hours and from service run buckets. Creep rates of the material were measured and evaluated directly in terms of temperature capability at 850°C and 900°C. Stress relaxation tests done at 0.8 percent total strain indicated that the creep rate properties in the service exposed airfoil were an order of magnitude higher than the material properties in the standard heat treated condition measured in the root form. In terms of temperature capability, the creep rate properties of the service run airfoil material had decreased by the equivalent of almost 40°C. The Stress relaxation test method was demonstrated to be a very useful tool in quantifying the degradation of creep properties in service run components. Creep data that would require years to gather using conventional creep tests was generated in a few days. This now makes realistic life assessment and repair/replace decisions possible during turbine overhauls. The test method’s unique ability to measure changes in creep rate over a large stress range, enabled the technique to distinguish between changes in creep strength due to (normal) microstructural evolution from the combined effects of microstructural evolution and strain related creep damage. A method for estimating standard constant load creep rupture life from the stress relaxation creep rate data is also presented along with time-temperature parameter correlations. The data sets examined in this study indicate that creep rupture lives can be estimated within a factor of three from the stress relaxation data. The information and analysis techniques described in this paper are directly applicable to metallurgical life assessment evaluations and the requalification of repaired General Electric buckets in Frame 3, 5, 6, 7, and 9 engine models.


Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Chiara Paoletti ◽  
Emanuela Cerri ◽  
Emanuele Ghio ◽  
Eleonora Santecchia ◽  
Marcello Cabibbo ◽  
...  

The effects of postprocessing annealing at 225 °C for 2 h on the creep properties of AlSi10Mg alloy were investigated through constant load experiments carried out at 150 °C, 175 °C and 225 °C. In the range of the experimental conditions here considered, the annealing treatment resulted in an increase in minimum creep rate for a given stress. The reduction in creep strength was higher at the lowest temperature, while the effect progressively vanished as temperature increased and/or applied stress decreased. The minimum creep rate dependence on applied stress was modeled using a physically-based model which took into account the ripening of Si particles at high temperature and which had been previously applied to the as-deposited alloy. The model was successfully validated, since it gave an excellent description of the experimental data.


2007 ◽  
Vol 561-565 ◽  
pp. 163-166
Author(s):  
Yoshihiro Terada ◽  
Tatsuo Sato

Creep rupture tests were performed for a die-cast Mg-Al-Ca alloy AX52 (X representing calcium) at 29 kinds of creep conditions in the temperature range between 423 and 498 K. The creep curve for the alloy is characterized by a minimum in the creep rate followed by an accelerating stage. The minimum creep rate (ε& m) and the creep rupture life (trup) follow the phenomenological Monkman-Grant relationship; trup = C0 /ε& m m. It is found for the AX52 die-cast alloy that the exponent m is unity and the constant C0 is 2.0 x 10-2, independent of creep testing temperature. The values of m and C0 are compared with those for another die-cast magnesium alloys. The value m=1 is generally detected for die-cast magnesium alloys. On the contrary, the value of C0 sensitively depends on alloy composition, which is reduced with increasing the concentration of alloying elements such as Al, Zn and Ca.


2014 ◽  
Vol 941-944 ◽  
pp. 314-317
Author(s):  
Guirong Li ◽  
Hong Ming Wang ◽  
Yu Hua Cui ◽  
Yue Ming Li ◽  
Cong Xiang Peng ◽  
...  

Al3Ti and Al3Zr particles reinforced 7055Al composites were processed by cryogenic treatment with different cooling speed at 1°C/min, 3°C/min and 5°C/min. Transmission Electronic Microscopy (TEM) was mainly used to analyze the microstructural evolution of the treated samples. The results show that with the increase of cooling speed the precipitate amount and dislocation density have been increased. The precipitates orientation exhibits some preferred orientation. The mechanical properties test demonstrates that for the samples treated at 5°C/min the tensile strength and elongation has arrived at the utmost.


Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuhao Song ◽  
Mingtao Wang ◽  
Yaping Zong ◽  
Ri He ◽  
Jianfeng Jin

Based on the principle of grain refinement caused by the second-phase particles, a phase field model was built to describe the recrystallization process in the ZK60 alloy system with Y added under applied stress between temperatures 573 and 673 K for 140 min duration. The simulation of grain growth with second phase particles and applied stress during annealing process on industrial scale on the condition of real time-space was achieved. Quantitative analysis was carried out and some useful laws were revealed in ZK60 alloy system. The second phase particles had a promoting effect on the grain refinement, however the effect weakened significantly when the content exceeded 1.5%. Our simulation results reveal the existence of a critical range of second phase particle size of 0.3–0.4 μm, within which a microstructure of fine grains can be obtained. Applied stress increased the grain coarsening rate significantly when the stress was more than 135 MPa. The critical size of the second phase particles was 0.4–0.75 μm when the applied stress was 135 MPa. Finally, a microstructure with a grain size of 11.8–13.8 μm on average could be obtained when the second phase particles had a content of 1.5% and a size of 0.4–0.75 μm with an applied stress less than 135 Mpa after 30 min annealing at 573 K.


1996 ◽  
Vol 118 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Estrin ◽  
H. Braasch ◽  
Y. Brechet

A new constitutive model describing material response to cyclic loading is presented. The model includes dislocation densities as internal variables characterizing the microstructural state of the material. In the formulation of the constitutive equations, the dislocation density evolution resulting from interactions between dislocations in channel-like dislocation patterns is considered. The capabilities of the model are demonstrated for INCONEL 738 LC and Alloy 800H.


2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (Special-Issue1) ◽  
pp. 782-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehdi Shekarbeigi ◽  
Hasan Sharafi

In the last three decades, the constitutive modelling of concrete evolved considerably. This paper describes various developments in this field based on different approaches such anelasticity, plasticity, continuum damage mechanics, plastic fracturing, endochronic theory, microplane models, etc. In this article the material is assumed to undergo small deformations. Only time independent constitutive models and the issues related to their implementation are discussed


1994 ◽  
Vol 350 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Misra ◽  
R. D. Noebe ◽  
R. Gibala

AbstractThe deformation and fracture behaviors of two directionally solidified multi-phase Ni-Fe-Al ordered alloys were investigated. One alloy consisted of continuous β+γ lamellae with fine γ precipitates within the γ phase. The NiAl-based β phase of this alloy exhibited <100> slip even when deformed parallel to the [001] growth direction. This material exhibited an initiation fracture toughness of ∼ 30 MPa √m and tensile ductility of 10%. The second alloy consisted of aligned but discontinuous γ lamellae within a continuous β phase. Again, the γ phase contained γ precipitates, but unlike the previous alloy, the β phase also contained a fine dispersion of bcc precipitates due to spinodal decomposition. The β phase of this alloy deformed by <111> slip. This four-phase alloy exhibited a fracture toughness of ∼ 21 MPa √m and tensile ductility of 2%. Observations of the plastic zone in both alloys indicated significant plasticity in the β phase due to easy slip transfer from the ductile second phase. The enhanced fracture resistance of these multiphase materials compared to single phase β alloys is attributed in large part to intrinsic toughening of the β phase by an increased mobile dislocation density due to efficient dislocation generation from the β/γ interfaces.


2018 ◽  
Vol 85 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yifu Chen ◽  
Guozheng Kang ◽  
Jianghong Yuan ◽  
Chao Yu

A series of stress-controlled uniaxial cyclic tension-unloading tests are discussed to investigate the ratchetting of a filled rubber at room temperature. It is shown that obvious ratchetting occurs and depends apparently on the applied stress level, stress rate, and stress history. Based on the experimental observations, a damage-coupled hyper-viscoelastic-plastic constitutive model is then developed to describe the ratchetting of the filled rubber, which consists of three branches in parallel, i.e., a hyperelastic, a viscoelastic, and a plastic one. The damage is assumed to act equally on three branches and consists of two parts, i.e., the Mullins-type damage caused by the initial tensile deformation and the accumulated damage occurred during the cyclic deformation. The developed model is validated by comparing the predicted results with the experimental data.


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