Comparison Research on Mechanical Properties of Stainless Steel after Laser Peened and Ultrasonically Peened

2013 ◽  
Vol 690-693 ◽  
pp. 2107-2111
Author(s):  
Cheng Wang ◽  
Zhi Lin Lai ◽  
Dong Sun ◽  
Liu Cheng Zhou ◽  
Zhi Bin An

The mechanical properties of 1Cr11Ni2W2MoV stainless steel after laser peening (LP) and ultrasonic shot peening (USP) were examined and compared. The stainless steel specimens were treated with the two different surface processing techniques. X-ray diffractometry (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), microhardness tester were used to investigate microstructure and mechanical properties. Vibration fatigue tests of untreated, LPed and USPed samples were also conducted. The results indicated that LP treatment can improved the fatigue life of 1Cr11Ni2W2MoV stainless steel more effectively. The increases of the compressive residual stress depth and microhardness in surface layer after LP were greater than that of USP. The SEM studies showed that USP treatment had an advantage in microstructure refinement. The compressive residual stresses make great contributions to the superiority of LP in the improvement of fatigue life of 1Cr11Ni2W2MoV stainless steel to USP.

1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanyao Jiang ◽  
Peter Kurath

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.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Jiang ◽  
Gun Jin Yun ◽  
Li Zhao ◽  
Junyong Tao

Novel accelerated random vibration fatigue test methodology and strategy are proposed, which can generate a design of the experimental test plan significantly reducing the test time and the sample size. Based on theoretical analysis and fatigue damage model, several groups of random vibration fatigue tests were designed and conducted with the aim of investigating effects of both Gaussian and non-Gaussian random excitation on the vibration fatigue. First, stress responses at a weak point of a notched specimen structure were measured under different base random excitations. According to the measured stress responses, the structural fatigue lives corresponding to the different vibrational excitations were predicted by using the WAFO simulation technique. Second, a couple of destructive vibration fatigue tests were carried out to validate the accuracy of the WAFO fatigue life prediction method. After applying the proposed experimental and numerical simulation methods, various factors that affect the vibration fatigue life of structures were systematically studied, including root mean squares of acceleration, power spectral density, power spectral bandwidth, and kurtosis. The feasibility of WAFO for non-Gaussian vibration fatigue life prediction and the use of non-Gaussian vibration excitation for accelerated fatigue testing were experimentally verified.


2018 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 21002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio J. Abdalla ◽  
Douglas Santos ◽  
Getúlio Vasconcelos ◽  
Vladimir H. Baggio-Scheid ◽  
Deivid F. Silva

In this work 300M steel samples is used. This high-strength steel is used in aeronautic and aerospace industry and other structural applications. Initially the 300 M steel sample was submitted to a heat treatment to obtain a bainític structure. It was heated at 850 °C for 30 minutes and after that, cooled at 300 °C for 60 minutes. Afterwards two types of surface treatments have been employed: (a) using low-power laser CO2 (125 W) for introducing carbon into the surface and (b) plasma nitriding at a temperature of 500° C for 3 hours. After surface treatment, the metallographic preparation was carried out and the observations with optical and electronic microscopy have been made. The analysis of the coating showed an increase in the hardness of layer formed on the surface, mainly, among the nitriding layers. The mechanical properties were analyzed using tensile and fatigue tests. The results showed that the mechanical properties in tensile tests were strongly affected by the bainitic microstructure. The steel that received the nitriding surface by plasma treatment showed better fatigue behavior. The results are very promising because the layer formed on steel surface, in addition to improving the fatigue life, still improves protection against corrosion and wear.


2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 0402011
Author(s):  
黄宇 Huang Yu ◽  
周建忠 Zhou Jianzhong ◽  
李京 Li Jing ◽  
田绪亮 Tian Xuliang ◽  
孟宪凯 Meng Xiankai ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Yuichi Fukuta ◽  
Yuichiro Nomura ◽  
Seiji Asada

NUREG/CR-6909 of USA and JSME of Japan proposed new rules for evaluating environmental effects in fatigue analyses of reactors components. These rules were established from a lot of fatigue data with polished specimens under simple loading condition. The effects of surface finish or complex loading condition were reported in some papers, but these data were obtained with the simple shaped specimens. In order to evaluate the effects of surface finish and loading condition and to confirm the applicability of the proposed rules to actual components, Low Cycle Fatigue tests are performed in PWR environment with the specimens cut from 316 austenitic stainless steel welded piping. The pipes are machined to have three levels of surface finish condition and the load pattern simulating the thermal stress is applied to specimens. In this study, the effect of surface finish on fatigue life is included to be small for 316 austenitic stainless steel welded piping. Considering the insensitive region in the current evaluation rule, predicted accuracy is increased and possibility of improving the current rule is indicated.


Author(s):  
A. Fissolo ◽  
J. M. Stelmaszyk

In order to estimate the crack initiation damage, and also the water leakage conditions on PWR pipes, uniaxial fatigue curves are often used. They were deduced from strain or stress load control tests using normalised cylindrical specimens. However, severe thermo-mechanical loading fluctuations are observed in operating conditions. Components may also be submitted to transient loadings. The purpose of the present work is to start investigation on the fatigue life with a variable loading, in order to examine cumulative damage effect in fatigue. In this frame, multilevel strain controlled fatigue tests have been performed on a Type 304-L stainless steel (elaborated in accordance with the RCC-M specifications). The experimental results show that linear Miner’s rule is not verified in our conditions. When the strains are applied in a decreasing order (High-Low strain sequence), the summation of cycle ratios is smaller than unity, whatever the number of applied levels, whereas this summation is higher than one for an increasing order (Low-High strain sequence). A loading sequence effect is clearly evidenced. Different cumulative fatigue damage theories, proposed in literature, have been also tested. Some of them have been given better estimation than the Miner’s rule. That is the case of the so-called “Hybrid Theory” proposed and tested before by Bui Quoc on a Type 304-L steel. Extension of a model proposed by S. Taheri would seem also promising. At this stage, final conclusion cannot be yet deduced, additional investigations are needed.


2014 ◽  
Vol 891-892 ◽  
pp. 1519-1524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Chu Liu ◽  
Joe Elambasseril ◽  
Shou Jin Sun ◽  
Martin Leary ◽  
Milan Brandt ◽  
...  

Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies are considered revolutionary because they could fundamentally change the way products are designed. Selective Laser Melting (SLM) is a metal based AM process with significant and growing potential for the manufacture of aerospace components. Traditionally a material needs to be listed in the Metallic Materials Properties Development and Standardization (MMPDS) handbook if it is to be considered certified. However, this requires a considerable amount of test data to be generated on the materials mechanical properties. Therefore, the MMPDS certification process does not lend itself easily to the certification of AM components as the final component can have similar mechanical properties to wrought alloys combined with the defects associated with traditional casting and welding technologies. These defects can substantially decrease the fatigue life of a fabricated component. The primary purpose of this investigation was to study the fatigue behaviour of as-built Ti-6Al-4V (Ti64) samples. Fatigue tests were performed on the Ti-6Al-4V specimens built using SLM with a variety of layer thicknesses and build (vertical or horizontal) directions. Fractography revealed the presence of a range of manufacturing defects located at or near the surface of the specimens. The experimental results indicated that Lack-of-Fusion (LOF) defects were primarily responsible for fatigue crack initiation. The reduction in fatigue life appeared to be affected by the location, size and shape of the LOF defect.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 878-890
Author(s):  
Tomoharu Kato ◽  
Yoshihiro Sakino ◽  
Yuji Sano

Laser peening introduces compressive residual stresses on the surfaces of various materials and is effective in enhancing fatigue strength. Using a small microchip laser, with energies of 5, 10, and 15 mJ, the authors applied laser peening to the base material of an HT780 high-strength steel, and confirmed compressive residual stresses in the near-surface layer. Laser peening with a pulse energy of 15 mJ was then applied to fatigue samples of an HT780 butt-welded joint. It was confirmed that laser peening with the microchip laser prolonged the fatigue life of the welded joint samples to the same level as in previous studies with a conventional laser.


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