Creep Fatigue Interactions in a 1 CrMo V Steel

1976 ◽  
Vol 190 (1) ◽  
pp. 319-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.G. Ellison ◽  
A.J.F. Paterson

Static and cyclic creep tests have been carried out on a 1 Cr Mo V steel at 565 °C. In addition, the effects of prior high strain fatigue on subsequent creep behaviour has been studied. A well defined ductile/brittle transition was noted which was unaffected by the type of load controlled cycle. The material softened under cyclic plastic strain and no experimental evidence was obtained which indicated that fatigue and creep damage interacted in a load controlled test to give rise to unexpectedly short lives. The conclusion derived is that “softened creep” data should be used in predictions of deformation and rupture behaviour, and that the use of virgin creep data can give rise to substantial errors.

Author(s):  
Muneeb Ejaz ◽  
Norhaida Ab Razak ◽  
Andrew Morris ◽  
Scott Lockyer ◽  
Catrin M. Davies

P91 steels are widely used in high temperature components for power generation. Creep data is often generated through accelerated short term creep tests, for practical reasons, via increasing stress or temperature though this may alter the creep behaviour. Through normalising the creep test stress by tensile strength the Wilshire models reduce the batch to batch scatter in the creep data and enable the prediction of long term creep data from relatively short term test results. In this work it is shown that the Wilshire models fitted to uniaxial creep rupture data can be used to predict failure in both as cast and service exposed multiaxial tests. This is provided that the equivalent stress is the rupture controlling stress, as is the case for the P91 tests examined, and the tensile strength is measured as part of the test programme.


Author(s):  
Peter Carter ◽  
T.-L. (Sam) Sham ◽  
Robert I. Jetter

Proposals for high temperature design methods have been developed for primary loads, creep-fatigue and strain limits. The methodologies rely on a common basis and assumption, that elastic, perfectly plastic analysis based on appropriate properties reflects the ability of loads and stress to redistribute for steady and cyclic loading for high temperature as well as for conventional design. The cyclic load design analyses rely on a further key property, that a cyclic elastic-plastic solution provides an upper bound to displacements, strains and local damage rates. The primary load analysis ensures that the design load is in equilibrium with the code allowable stress, taking into account: i) The stress state dependent (multi-axial) rupture criterion, ii) The limit to stress re-distribution defined by the material creep law. The creep-fatigue analysis is focused on the cyclic creep damage calculation, and uses conventional fatigue and creep-fatigue damage calculations. It uses a temperature-dependent pseudo “yield” stress defined by the material yield and rupture data to identify cycles which will not cause creep damage > 1 for the selected life. Similarly the strain limits analysis bounds cyclic strain accumulation. It also uses a temperature-dependent pseudo “yield” stress defined by the material yield and creep strain accumulation data to identify cycles which will not cause average (membrane) inelastic strain > 1% for the design life. The paper gives an overview of the background and justification of these statements, and examples.


2017 ◽  
Vol 270 ◽  
pp. 162-167
Author(s):  
Petr Král ◽  
Vaclav Sklenička ◽  
Květa Kuchařová ◽  
Marie Svobodová ◽  
Marie Kvapilová ◽  
...  

The microstructure and creep behaviour of the welded joints of P92 steel pipe were investigated in order to determine the influence of orbital heat welding technology on the creep resistance. Creep specimens were machined from the welded joints. Tensile creep tests of welded joints were performed at 873 K using different stresses. The microstructure of tested specimens was investigated by scanning electron microscope Tescan equipped with an electron-back scatter diffraction. The creep results showed that the creep fracture strain of the welded joints decreases with decreasing value of applied stress. Microstructure investigation showed that fracture behaviour of welded joints is influenced by an enhanced cavity formation at grain boundaries in the heat-affected zone causing lower fracture ductility.


Author(s):  
Haruhisa Shigeyama ◽  
Yukio Takahashi ◽  
Jonathan Parker

Creep tests on two kinds of circumferentially notched round bar specimens as well as plain bar specimen were performed to obtain the multiaxial and uniaxial creep data. Creep damage models of strain fraction and energy fraction rule were developed using these creep data. Then creep damage analyses using a finite element software, MSC Marc, were carried out on notched specimens of both types and creep failure lives were predicted using the creep damage models of classical life fraction rule and developed strain or energy fraction rule. Experimental failure lives of all the conditions of notched specimens were compared with analytical results. As a result, creep failure lives obtained by life fraction rule were underestimated in the short term region and overestimated in the long term region. On the other hands, it is apparent that the majority of creep failure lives obtained by strain and energy fraction rule were predicted with an accuracy within a factor of two. Furthermore, some interrupted creep tests and creep void observations were conducted on the notched specimens of both types. The distributions of creep void number density were in good agreement with the distributions of creep damage calculated by finite element analyses.


1980 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 558-562
Author(s):  
C. E. Richard

A simplified, inelastic analysis of helical coil tubing for high-temperature applications is described. Elastically calculated operating stresses are compared with inelastic estimates of allowable cyclic creep/fatigue stresses. The technique of simplifying and analyzing the operating cycles to determine acceptable creep damage levels has general application. The allowable stresses represent the greatest uncertainty in the method, and tests are required to improve their accuracy. A method of utilizing short-time test data to determine allowable stresses for reactor lifetimes of 30 to 40 years is proposed.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aifeng Huang ◽  
Weixing Yao ◽  
Fang Chen

Low-cycle fatigue tests at different frequencies and creep tests under different stress levels of Plexiglas Resist 45 were conducted. Correspondingly, the creep fracture time,S-Ncurves, cyclic creep, and hysteresis loop were obtained. These results showed that the fatigue life increases with frequency at low frequency domain. After analysis, it was found that fatigue life is dependent on the load rate and is affected by the creep damage. In addition, a new continuum damage mechanics (CDM) model was established to analyze creep-fatigue life, where the damage increment nonlinear summation rule was proposed and the frequency modification was made on the fatigue damage evolution equation. Differential evolution (DE) algorithm was employed to determine the parameters within the model. The proposed model described fatigue life under different frequencies, and the calculated results agreed well with the experimental results.


Author(s):  
Peter Carter ◽  
R. I. Jetter ◽  
T.-L. (Sam) Sham

Shakedown analysis may be used to provide a conservative estimate of local rupture and hence cyclic creep damage for use in a creep-fatigue assessment. The shakedown analysis is based on an elastic-perfectly plastic material with a temperature-dependent pseudo yield stress defined to guarantee that a shakedown solution exists, which does not exceed rupture stress and temperature for a defined life. The ratio of design life to the estimated cyclic life is the shakedown creep damage. Fatigue damage may be calculated from the local strain values in the shakedown analysis using the existing procedures in Appendix T of Subsection NH for equivalent strain range. The methodology does not require stress classification and is also applicable to cycles over the full range of temperature above and below the creep regime.


1984 ◽  
Vol 106 (4) ◽  
pp. 342-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Ellyin ◽  
D. Kujawski

In this paper the cyclic plastic strain energy of the A-516 Gr. 70 carbon low-alloy steel during fully reversed constant strain or stress-controlled cycles is discussed. A relationship is proposed which can be used to determine the plastic strain energy per cycle for a non-Masing material for various stress ranges during the entire life cycle. Predictions of the proposed method are in good agreement with the experimental data. The variation of the plastic strain energy per cycle and cyclic creep during the life of fully reversed stress-controlled tests is also presented. It is shown that the cyclic creep strain affects the fatigue crack initiation period and consequently the amount of the total absorbed plastic strain energy to failure.


2016 ◽  
Vol 713 ◽  
pp. 183-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vàclav Sklenička ◽  
K. Kuchařová ◽  
M. Kvapilová ◽  
Petr Král ◽  
Jiří Dvořák

Advanced tungsten modified 9%Cr ferritic steel (ASTM Grade P92) is a promising material for the next generation of fossil and nuclear power plants. Unfortunately, there are rather few published reports on damage processes in P92 steel during high temperature creep and the effect of damage evolution on the creep strength is not fully understood. In this work, the creep behaviour of P92 steel in as-received condition and after long-term isothermal ageing was investigated at 600 and 650°C using uniaxial tension creep tests. To quantify the effect of each damage process on the loss of creep strength, most of creep tests were followed by microstructural and fractographic investigations. It was found that the large Laves phase particles, which coarsened during creep exposure, served as preferential sites for creep cavity nucleation.


Author(s):  
Warwick M. Payten ◽  
David W. Dean ◽  
Ken U. Snowden

The accumulation of creep-fatigue damage over time is the principal damage mechanism which will eventually lead to crack initiation in critical high temperature equipment. A model that calculates the creep damage under conditions of strain control has been developed that assumes on a macroscopic level that the energy dissipated in the material may be taken as a measure of the creep damage induced in the material. This then assumes that the creep damage is directly proportional to absorbed internal energy density. The model developed is derived from considerations of mechanistic cavity growth. The model makes use of already existing creep data and relatively easily determined fatigue data for estimation of life under non-steady state conditions. The predictions of the energy-density exhaustion approach are compared with the results of creep-fatigue tests on a low alloy ferritic steel 1/2Cr-1/2Mo-1/4V (CMV) and with creep-fatigue calculations using a number of current models. The predicted results of the energy-density model are found to have good correlation with the measured creep-fatigue lives.


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