scholarly journals Collection of Fundamental Strength Data and Study on Creep-Fatigue Life Estimation Methods for Fast Reactor 316 Stainless Steel.

1995 ◽  
Vol 44 (496) ◽  
pp. 35-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yukio TAKAHASHI ◽  
Akito NITTA
Keyword(s):  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Fast Reactor ◽  
Estimation Methods ◽  
Strength Data ◽  
Life Estimation ◽  
316 Stainless Steel ◽  
Fatigue Life Estimation ◽  
Creep Fatigue

An Investigation of Cyclic Transient Behavior and Implications on Fatigue Life Estimates

1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanyao Jiang ◽  
Peter Kurath
Keyword(s):  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Cyclic Hardening ◽  
Transient Behavior ◽  
Fatigue Tests ◽  
304 Stainless Steel ◽  
Deformation History ◽  
Life Estimation ◽  
Fatigue Life Estimation ◽  
Track Deformation

Current research focuses on proportional cyclic hardening and non-Massing behaviors. The interaction of these two hardenings can result in the traditionally observed overall softening, hardening or mixed behavior exhibited for fully reversed strain controlled fatigue tests. Proportional experiments were conducted with five materials, 304 stainless steel, normalized 1070 and 1045 steels, and 7075-T6 and 6061-T6 aluminum alloys. All the materials display similar trends, but the 304 stainless steel shows the most pronounced transient behavior and will be discussed in detail. Existing algorithms for this behavior are evaluated in light of the recent experiments, and refinements to the Armstrong-Frederick class of incremental plasticity models are proposed. Modifications implemented are more extensive than the traditional variation of yield stress, and a traditional strain based memory surface is utilized to track deformation history. Implications of the deformation characteristics with regard to fatigue life estimation, especially variable amplitude loading, will be examined. The high-low step loading is utilized to illustrate the effect of transient deformation on fatigue life estimation procedures, and their relationship to the observed and modeled deformation.

Low Cycle Fatigue Life of Type 316 Stainless Steel Notched Specimen Under Proportional and Non-Proportional Multiaxial Loadings

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takamoto Itoh
Keyword(s):  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Strain Path ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Notched Specimen ◽  
Life Estimation ◽  
316 Stainless Steel ◽  
Strain Parameter ◽  
Strain Paths

This study discusses multiaxial low cycle fatigue life of notched specimen under proportional and non-proportional loadings at room temperature. Strain controlled multiaxial low cycle fatigue tests were carried out using smooth and circumferentially notched round-bar specimens of type 316 stainless steel. Four kinds of notched specimens were employed of which elastic stress concentration factors, Kt, are 1.5, 2.5, 4.2 and 6.0. The strain paths include proportional and non-proportional loadings. The former employed a push-pull straining or a reversed torsion straining. The latter was achieved by strain path where axial and shear strains has 90 degree phase difference but their amplitudes is the same based on von Mises’ criterion. The notch dependency of multiaxial low cycle fatigue life and the life estimation are discussed. The lives depend on both Kt and strain path. The strain parameter for the life estimation is also discussed with the non-proportional strain parameter proposed by the author with introducing Kt. The proposed parameter gives a satisfactory correlation with multiaxial low cycle fatigue life of notched specimen of type 316 stainless steel under proportional and non-proportional loadings.

scholarly journals Approximate relative fatigue life estimation methods for thin-walled monolithic ceramic crowns

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 726-736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sadia Nasrin ◽  
Noriko Katsube ◽  
Robert R. Seghi ◽  
Stanislav I. Rokhlin
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Estimation Methods ◽  
Life Estimation ◽  
Fatigue Life Estimation ◽  
Ceramic Crowns ◽  
Thin Walled

Evaluation of Creep-Fatigue Life Prediction Methods for Low-Carbon Nitrogen-Added 316 Stainless Steel

1998 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yukio Takahashi
Keyword(s):  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Life Prediction ◽  
Fatigue Life Prediction ◽  
Prediction Methods ◽  
Secondary Creep ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
316 Stainless Steel ◽  
Creep Fatigue ◽  
Exhaustion Method

Low-carbon, medium-nitrogen 316 stainless steel is a principal candidate for a main structural material of a demonstration fast breeder reactor plant in Japan. A number of long-term creep tests and creep-fatigue tests have been conducting for two heats of the steel. Two representative creep-fatigue life prediction methods, i.e., time fraction rule and ductility exhaustion method were applied. An introduction of a simple viscous strain term improved the description of stress relaxation behavior and only the conventional (primary plus secondary) creep strain was assumed to contribute to creep damage in the ductility exhaustion method. The present ductility exhaustion approach was found to have very good accuracy in creep-fatigue life prediction, while the time fraction rule overpredicted failure life as large as a factor of 30.

Pressurized Water Reactor Environment Effect on 316 Stainless Steel Stress Hardening/Softening: An Experimental Study

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subhasish Mohanty ◽  
William K. Soppet ◽  
Saurindranath Majumdar ◽  
Krishnamurti Natesan
Keyword(s):  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Stress Strain ◽  
Modeling Tools ◽  
Pressurized Water ◽  
Light Water ◽  
Water Reactor ◽  
Life Estimation ◽  
316 Stainless Steel ◽  
Water Reactors

In USA there are approximately 100 operating light water reactors (LWR) consisting fleet of both pressurized water reactors (PWR) and boiling water reactors (BWR). Most of these reactors were built before 1970 and the design lives of most of these reactors are 40 years. It is expected that by 2030, even those reactors that have received 20 year life extension license from the US nuclear regulatory commission (NRC) will begin to reach the end of their licensed periods of operation. For economical reason it is be beneficial to extend the license beyond 60 to perhaps 80 years that would enable existing plants to continue providing safe, clean and economic electricity without significant green house gas emissions. However, environmental fatigue is one of the major aging related issues for these reactors, and may create hurdles in long term sustainability of these reactors. To address some of the environmental fatigue related issues, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) with the sponsorship of Department of Energy’s Light Water Reactor Sustainability (LWRS) program trying to develop mechanistic approach for more accurate life estimation of LWR components. In this context ANL conducted many fatigue experiments under different test and environment conditions on 316 stainless steel (316SS) material that is or similar grade steels are widely used in US reactors. Contrary to the conventional S∼N curve based empirical fatigue life estimation approach, the aim of the present DOE sponsored work is to understand material ageing more mechanistically (e.g. time dependent hardening and softening) under different test and environmental conditions. Better mechanistic understanding will help to develop computer based advanced modeling tools to better extrapolate stress-strain evolution of reactor component under multi-axial stress states and hence to help predicting their fatigue life more accurately. In this paper (part-I) the fatigue experiments under different test and environment conditions and related stress-strain results for 316 SS are discussed. In another paper (part-II) the related evolutionary cyclic plasticity material modeling techniques and results are discussed.

Further Evaluation of Creep-Fatigue Life Prediction Methods for Low-Carbon Nitrogen-Added 316 Stainless Steel

1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Takahashi
Keyword(s):  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Life Prediction ◽  
Fatigue Life Prediction ◽  
Prediction Methods ◽  
Secondary Creep ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
316 Stainless Steel ◽  
Creep Fatigue ◽  
Exhaustion Method

Low-carbon, medium-nitrogen 316 stainless steel is a principal candidate for a main structural material of a demonstration fast breeder reactor plant in Japan. A number of long-term creep tests and creep-fatigue tests have been conducted for four products of this steel. Two representative creep-fatigue life prediction methods, i.e., time fraction rule and ductility exhaustion method were applied. Total stress relaxation behavior was simulated well by an addition of a viscous strain term to the conventional (primary plus secondary) creep strain, but only the letter was assumed to contribute to creep damage in the ductility exhaustion method. The present ductility exhaustion approach was found to have very good accuracy in creep-fatigue life prediction for all materials tested, while the time fraction rule tended to overpredict failure life as large as a factor of 30. Discussion was made on the reason for this notable difference.

A novel rate based methodology for creep fatigue life estimation of superalloys

2020 ◽  
Vol 182 ◽  
pp. 104064
Author(s):  
Kaustav Barat ◽  
S. Sivaprasad ◽  
Sujoy Kumar Kar ◽  
S. Tarafder
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Life Estimation ◽  
Fatigue Life Estimation ◽  
Creep Fatigue
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