Use of CDM in Materials Modeling and Component Creep Life Prediction

2000 ◽  
Vol 122 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Dyson

Physically based continuum creep damage mechanics (CDM) has been reviewed and shown to provide a unifying framework for some seemingly diverse methods of predicting design and remanent creep lifetimes. These methods—theta projection, omega parameter, Larson-Miller parameter, and Robinson’s life fraction rule—exhibit certain strengths in common with CDM, but also weaknesses which CDM identifies and avoids. CDM consists of sets of coupled rate equations for inelastic strain, internal stress, and microstructural evolution (damage) which can then be integrated under boundary conditions appropriate to the test or service operating conditions: constant load/temperature for creep; constant total strain for stress-relaxation, variable stress/temperature, etc. Other state-variable approaches to creep and cyclic plasticity (for example, those due to Bodner, Miller, Chaboche, and Robinson), differ from CDM mainly in concentrating on the primary/secondary stages of creep (or cyclic work-hardening) and/or by their introduction of damage in an empirical Kachanov manner. The application of physically based CDM to LCF/thermal fatigue and its potential for predicting lifetimes of welded joints are also discussed. [S0094-9930(00)00903-3]

The creep rupture of circumferentially notched, circular tension bars which are subjected to constant load for long periods at constant temperature is studied both experimentally and by using a time-iterative numerical procedure which describes the formation and growth of creep damage as a field quantity. The procedure models the development of failed or cracked regions of material due to the growth and linkage of grain boundary defects. Close agreement is shown between experimental and theoretical values of the representative rupture stress, of the zones of creep damage and of the development of cracks for circular (Bridgman, Studies in large plastic flow and fracture , New York: McGraw-Hill (1952)) and British Standard notched specimens (B.S. no. 3500 (1969)). The minimum section of the circular notch is shown to be subjected to relatively uniform states of multi-axial stress and damage while the B.S. notch is shown to be subjected to non-uniform stress and damage fields in which single cracks grow through relatively undamaged material. The latter situation is shown to be analogous to the growth of a discrete crack in a lightly damaged continuum. The continuum damage mechanics theory presented here is shown to be capable of accurately predicting these extreme types of behaviour.


1998 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Viswanathan ◽  
J. Foulds

Accelerated stress rupture testing has become a common method for determination of the remaining life of in-service components subject to creep damage at elevated temperatures. Stress and temperature increases have both been used to cause accelerated test failures, although the temperature accelerated tests have been preferred during the last decade. Remaining life estimation schemes have essentially involved extrapolation of results of the accelerated tests to the operating conditions. The accelerated test approach has found such widespread acceptance that most users today are unaware of its limitations and have started using the results in a definitive and quantitative way as a direct prediction of the remaining life of the component. EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) investigators have examined the application and validity of a number of aspects of accelerated testing, as well as the underlying assumptions in the extrapolation procedures. This paper reviews the current practice, describes results from a number of research activities, and provides general guidelines for accelerated rupture testing.


2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Yan-Feng Li ◽  
Zhisheng Zhang ◽  
Chenglin Zhang ◽  
Jie Zhou ◽  
Hong-Zhong Huang

Abstract This paper deals with the creep characteristics of the aircraft turbine disc material of nickel-base superalloy GH4169 under high temperature. From the perspective of continuum damage mechanics, a new creep life prediction model is proposed to predict the creep life of metallic materials under both uniaxial and multiaxial stress states. The creep test data of GH4169 under different loading conditions are used to demonstrate the proposed model. Moreover, from the perspective of numerical simulation, the test data with analysis results obtained by using the finite element analysis based on Graham creep model is carried out for comparison. The results show that numerical analysis results are in good agreement with experimental data. By incorporating the numerical analysis and continuum damage mechanics, it provides an effective way to accurately describe the creep damage process of GH4169.


Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Chiara Paoletti ◽  
Emanuela Cerri ◽  
Emanuele Ghio ◽  
Eleonora Santecchia ◽  
Marcello Cabibbo ◽  
...  

The effects of postprocessing annealing at 225 °C for 2 h on the creep properties of AlSi10Mg alloy were investigated through constant load experiments carried out at 150 °C, 175 °C and 225 °C. In the range of the experimental conditions here considered, the annealing treatment resulted in an increase in minimum creep rate for a given stress. The reduction in creep strength was higher at the lowest temperature, while the effect progressively vanished as temperature increased and/or applied stress decreased. The minimum creep rate dependence on applied stress was modeled using a physically-based model which took into account the ripening of Si particles at high temperature and which had been previously applied to the as-deposited alloy. The model was successfully validated, since it gave an excellent description of the experimental data.


2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Rutecka ◽  
Z.L. Kowalewski ◽  
K. Makowska ◽  
K. Pietrzak ◽  
L. Dietrich

Abstract The results of comparative examinations of mechanical behaviour during fatigue loads and microstructure assessment before and after fatigue tests were presented. Composites of aluminium matrix and SiC reinforcement manufactured using the KoBo method were investigated. The combinations of two kinds of fatigue damage mechanisms were observed. The first one governed by cyclic plasticity and related to inelastic strain amplitude changes and the second one expressed in a form of ratcheting based on changes in mean inelastic strain. The higher SiC content the less influence of the fatigue damage mechanisms on material behaviour was observed. Attempts have been made to evaluate an appropriate fatigue damage parameter. However, it still needs further improvements.


2015 ◽  
Vol 750 ◽  
pp. 266-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Zhou ◽  
Xue Dong Chen ◽  
Zhi Chao Fan ◽  
Yi Chun Han

The creep behavior of 2.25Cr-1Mo-0.25V ferritic steel was investigated using a set of physically-based creep damage constitutive equations. The material constants were determined according to the creep experimental data, using an efficient genetic algorithm. The user-defined subroutine for creep damage evolution was developed based on the commercial finite element software ANSYS and its user programmable features (UPFs), and the numerical simulation of the stress distribution and the damage evolution of the semi V-type notched specimen during creep were studied. The results showed that the genetic algorithm is a very efficient optimization approach for the parameter identification of the creep damage constitutive equations, and finite element simulation based on continuum damage mechanics can be used to analyze and predict the creep damage evolution under multi-axial stress states.


1991 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fan Jinghong ◽  
Peng Xianghe

The hardening behavior of materials in nonproportional cyclic process is related to the internal changes of materials, such as dislocation cell for wary slip material and ladder or vein substructures for planar slip material. The multiplicatively separated form of hardening function f, in terms of nonhardening region proposed by Ohno [1], and the measure of nonproportionality A proposed by Banallal and Marquis in 1987 [2], is then explained on this physical foundation. The new contributions of this hardening function are: (a) two parameters (f2 and f3) dependent on A are used to differentiate between the influence of latent hardening realized by a sudden change of loading direction, and hereditary hardening associated with nonproportional loading, (b) a general differential form fi (i = 1,2,3) is proposed, and memorial parameters a1 and a3 are introduced to describe different deformation history effects for wary and planar slip materials, (c) different hardening mechanisms through fi are embedded into thermomechanically constitutive relation. The stress responses of 304 and 316 stainless steels subjected to biaxial nonproportional loadings at room temperature are analyzed and compared with the experimental results obtained by Chaboche [3], Tanaka [4, 5] and Ohno [1].


Author(s):  
Yu Zhou ◽  
Chen Xuedong ◽  
Fan Zhichao ◽  
Jie Dong

Creep failure is one of the most important failure modes in the design of hydroprocessing reactors at elevated temperatures, and the accurate prediction of the creep behavior in structural discontinuities is a critical issue for component design. A physically-based continnum damage mechanics (CDM) model was adopted to describe all three creep stages of 2.25Cr-1Mo-0.25V ferritic steel widely used in manufacturing modern hydroprocessing reactors. The material constants in the damage constitutive equations were identified using an efficient optimization scheme based on genetic algorithm (GA). The user-defined subroutine implementing the CDM model was developed using user programmable features (UPFs) in ANSYS. Three-dimensional finite element analysis of the hydroprocessing reactor was conducted to determine the critical regions, and the studies on the stress redistribution and the prediction of damage evolution in these regions during creep were carried out. The results show that FE modelling based on CDM theory can provide a good tool for creep design of complex engineering components.


2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 1150-1169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Baranger

Ceramic matrix composites have good thermomechanical properties at high or very high temperatures. The modeling of the crack networks associated to the degradation of such composites using damage mechanics is not straightforward. The main reason is the presence of a crack network mainly oriented by the loading direction, which is a priori unknown. To model this, compliance tensorial damage variables are used in a thermodynamic potential able to account for crack closure effects (unilateral contact). The damage kinematic is initially completely free and imposed by the evolution laws. The key point of the present paper is to account for friction in such cracks that can result in an apparent activation/deactivation of the shear damage. The initial model is enriched with an inelastic strain and a friction law. The plasticity criterion is expressed only using tensorial variables. The model is identified and illustrated on multiaxial data obtained at ONERA on tubes loaded in tension and torsion.


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