Low Cycle Fatigue Behavior and Mechanism of Newly Developed Advanced Heat Resistant Austenitic Stainless Steels at High Temperature

2014 ◽  
Vol 891-892 ◽  
pp. 377-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guo Cai Chai

Austenitic stainless steel grade UNS S31035 (Sandvik Sanicro® 25) has been developed for the next generation of 700°C A-USC power plant. This paper will mainly focus on the study of low cycle fatigue behavior and damage mechanisms of the material at room temperature, 600C to 700C by using electron back scatter diffraction and electron channeling contrast image techniques. At room temperature, the material shows a hardening and softening behavior as usual. At high temperature, however, it shows only a cyclic hardening behavior. Dynamic strain ageing can be one of the mechanisms. The damage and fatigue crack initiation mechanisms due to cyclic loading at different temperatures and loading conditions have been identified. The interactions between dislocations or slip bands with grain boundary or twin boundary are the main damage mechanism at low temperature or at high temperature with large strain amplitudes. Strain localization due to dislocation slipping is the main mechanism for the damage in grain.

Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damien Colas ◽  
Eric Finot ◽  
Sylvain Flouriot ◽  
Samuel Forest ◽  
Matthieu Mazière ◽  
...  

This work provides an experimental and computational analysis of low cycle fatigue of a tantalum polycrystalline aggregate. The experimental results include strain field and lattice rotation field measurements at the free surface of a tension–compression test sample after 100, 1000, 2000, and 3000 cycles at ±0.2% overall strain. They reveal the development of strong heterogeneites of strain, plastic slip activity, and surface roughness during cycling. Intergranular and transgranular cracks are observed after 5000 cycles. The Crystal Plasticity Finite Element simulation recording more than 1000 cycles confirms the large strain dispersion at the free surface and shows evidence of strong local ratcheting phenomena occurring in particular at some grain boundaries. The amount of ratcheting plastic strain at each cycle is used as the main ingredient of a new local fatigue crack initiation criterion.


2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (12) ◽  
pp. 1814-1821 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ankur Chauhan ◽  
Dimitri Litvinov ◽  
Tim Gräning ◽  
Jarir Aktaa

Abstract


2013 ◽  
Vol 794 ◽  
pp. 441-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.V. Prasad Reddy ◽  
R. Sandhya ◽  
M.D. Mathew ◽  
S. Sankaran

Low cycle fatigue (LCF) and Creep-fatigue interaction (CFI) behavior of 316LN austenitic stainless steel alloyed with 0.07, 0.11, 0.14, .22 wt.% nitrogen is briefly discussed in this paper. The strain-life fatigue behavior of these steels is found to be dictated by not only cyclic plasticity but also by dynamic strain aging (DSA) and secondary cyclic hardening (SCH). The influence of the above phenomenon on cyclic stress response and fatigue life is evaluated in the present study. The above mentioned steels exhibited both single-and dual-slope strain-life fatigue behavior depending on the test temperatures. Concomitant dislocation substructural evolution has revealed transition in substructures from planar to cell structures justifying the change in slope. The beneficial effect of nitrogen on LCF life is observed to be maximum for 316LN with nitrogen in the range 0.11 - 0.14 wt.%, for the tests conducted over a range of temperatures (773-873 K) and at ±0.4 and 0.6 % strain amplitudes at a strain rate of 3*10-3 s-1. A decrease in the applied strain rate from 3*10-3 s-1 to 3*10-5 s-1 or increase in the test temperature from 773 to 873 K led to a peak in the LCF life at a nitrogen content of 0.07 wt.%. Similar results are obtained in CFI tests conducted with tensile hold periods of 13 and 30 minutes. Fractography studies of low strain rate and hold time tested specimens revealed extensive intergranular cracking.


2016 ◽  
Vol 652 ◽  
pp. 30-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Preeti Verma ◽  
N.C. Santhi Srinivas ◽  
S.R. Singh ◽  
Vakil Singh

2016 ◽  
Vol 138 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Barrett ◽  
Eimear M. O'Hara ◽  
Padraic E. O'Donoghue ◽  
Sean B. Leen

This paper presents the high-temperature low-cycle fatigue (HTLCF) behavior of a precipitate strengthened 9Cr martensitic steel, MarBN, designed to provide enhanced creep strength and precipitate stability at high temperature. The strain-controlled test program addresses the cyclic effects of strain-rate and strain-range at 600 °C, as well as tensile stress-relaxation response. A recently developed unified cyclic viscoplastic material model is implemented to characterize the complex cyclic and relaxation plasticity response, including cyclic softening and kinematic hardening effects. The measured response is compared to that of P91 steel, a current power plant material, and shows enhanced cyclic strength relative to P91.


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