Study of Life Prediction and Damage Mechanism for Modified 9Cr-1Mo Steel Under Creep-Fatigue Interaction

2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guodong Zhang ◽  
Yanfen Zhao ◽  
Fei Xue ◽  
Zhaoxi Wang ◽  
Jinna Mei ◽  
...  

Creep-fatigue interaction is a principal cause of failures of many engineering components under high temperature and cyclic loading. In this work, stress controlled creep-fatigue interaction tests are carried out for modified 9Cr-1Mo (P91) steel. In order to study the damage mechanism of P91 steel under creep-fatigue interaction, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) of specimen fracture morphology and in-situ observation experiments were conducted. Based on the ductility exhaustion theory and creep-fatigue interaction tests data, the modified ductility exhaustion life prediction model was developed. The predicted results are in a good agreement with the experiment. By comparison with frequency separation model, the life predicted by ductility exhaustion model is better than frequency separation model obviously. The results show that different stress amplitude and mean stress have great effect on the fracture damage mechanism when the hold time is invariable. By the SEM analysis of fracture morphology, the damage characters of creep, creep-fatigue interaction and fatigue can be partitioned. The specimen crack initiation source is the modified 9Cr-1Mo steel inclusion. Therefore, this work can provide a reference of life prediction and design for high temperature materials and components.

2011 ◽  
Vol 465 ◽  
pp. 47-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen D. Antolovich ◽  
Robert L. Amaro ◽  
Richard W. Neu ◽  
A Staroselsky

In a world increasingly concerned with environmental factors and efficient use of resources, increasing operating temperatures of high temperature machinery can play an important role in meeting these goals. In addition, the cost of failure of such devices is rapidly becoming prohibitive. For example, in an airline crash airframe and engine manufacturers are, on average, held liable for 1,000,000 euros per fatality excluding the loss of property. Thus there is considerable pressure to make machinery that can operate much more safely at high temperatures. This means that the old ways of guarding against high temperature fatigue failure (e.g. factor of safety, S/N curves, creep life) are no longer acceptable; more reliable, accurate, and efficient means are needed to manage life, durability and risk. In this paper, high temperature fatigue is considered in terms of past successes and current challenges. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding damage mechanisms and their interactions both in terms of scientific interest and technological importance. Materials used in nuclear reactors (e.g. selected steels and solid solution Ni-base alloys) and in hot sections of jet engines (e.g. superalloys) are used as vehicles to illustrate damage evolution and interaction. Phenomenological life prediction models are presented and compared with physics-based damage evolution/interaction models which are based on observed physical processes such as creep/fatigue/environment interactions. It is shown that in many cases, in spite of the emphasis on creep-fatigue interactions, the most damaging forms of damage that occur under thermo-mechanical fatigue (TMF) loading result from the interaction of slip bands with oxidized boundaries.


2007 ◽  
Vol 353-358 ◽  
pp. 190-194
Author(s):  
Nian Jin Chen ◽  
Zeng Liang Gao ◽  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Yue Bao Le

The law of low-cycle fatigue with hold time at elevated temperature is investigated in this paper. A new life prediction model for the situation of fatigue and creep interaction is developed, based on the damage due to fatigue and creep. In order to verify the prediction model, strain-controlled low-cycle fatigue tests at temperature 693K, 823K and 873K and fatigue tests with various hold time at temperature 823K and 873K for 316L austenitic stainless steel were carried out. Good agreement is found between the predictions and experimental results.


2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (9) ◽  
pp. 1344-1366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang-Dai Li ◽  
De-Guang Shang ◽  
Cheng-Cheng Zhang ◽  
Xiao-Dong Liu ◽  
Dao-Hang Li ◽  
...  

The multiaxial thermomechanical fatigue properties for nickel-based superalloy GH4169 in aeroengine turbine discs are investigated in this paper. Four types of axial–torsional thermomechanical fatigue experiments were performed to identify the cyclic deformation behavior and the damage mechanism. The experimental results showed that the creep damage can be generated under thermally in-phase loading while it can be ignored under thermally out-of-phase loading, and the responded stress increasing phenomenon, that is, non-proportional hardening, can be shown under the mechanically out-of-phase strain loading. Based on the analysis of cyclic deformation behavior and damage mechanism, a life prediction method was proposed for multiaxial thermomechanical fatigue, in which the pure fatigue damage, the creep damage, and the interaction between them were simultaneously considered. The pure fatigue damage can be calculated by the isothermal fatigue parameters corresponding to the temperature without creep; the creep damage can be calculated by the principle of subdivision, and the creep–fatigue interaction can be determined by creep damage, fatigue damage, and an interaction coefficient which is used to reflect the creep–fatigue interaction strength. The predicted results showed that the proposed method is reasonable.


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