Experimental Determination of Elastic and Plastic LLD Rates During Creep Crack Growth Testing

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. M. Tarnowski ◽  
C. M. Davies ◽  
K. M. Nikbin ◽  
D. W. Dean
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
Crack Growth ◽  
Creep Crack Growth ◽  
Current Method ◽  
Creep Crack ◽  
Load Line ◽  
Load Line Displacement ◽  
Final Failure ◽  
Complex Crack

Elastic and plastic load line displacement (LLD) rates are often ignored when analyzing Creep Crack Growth (CCG) tests due to difficulties in accurately determining their value for complex crack morphologies typical of creep. Instead, the total LLD rate is assumed to be entirely due to creep. This simplistic approach overestimates the crack tip characterizing parameter C* which is non-conservative. This paper presents a review of the current method of interpreting CCG test data in ASTM E1457 and proposes an improved approach which accounts for the elastic and plastic LLD rates. Estimations of the elastic and plastic LLD rate are obtained from a partial unload immediately after load-up and a full unload, at the end of the test, prior to final failure. Some finite element validation of this method is presented. Implementing this approach will facilitate more realistic CCG laws.

Analysis of Creep Crack Growth by Intelligent Phased Array Ultrasonic Inspection

2004 ◽  
Vol 261-263 ◽  
pp. 1319-1324 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.S. Jeong ◽  
Byeong Soo Lim
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Crack Growth Rate ◽  
Crack Growth ◽  
Phased Array ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Creep Crack Growth ◽  
Displacement Rate ◽  
Creep Crack ◽  
Load Line ◽  
Load Line Displacement

At high temperatures typical for service conditions in fossil power plants, the creep fracture is dominated by the formation, growth and coalescence of cavities. Using high temperature pipe materials, P92 and P122, the characteristics of creep crack growth were analyzed in this study according to the cavities. The characteristics of cavities play a critical role in creep crack propagation and load line displacement. The effect of the load line displacement rate(dv/dt) and crack growth rate(da/dt) on the da/dt–Ct relation of creep crack growth was evaluated at different temperatures and Ki(initial stress intensity factor) values. The number of cavities increased with increasing temperature and Ki. The crack growth rate and load line displacement rate increased with the increase in the cavity numbers. The kind and distribution of these internal flaws were investigated by an intelligent phased array ultrasonic method and they were utilized in deriving the relationship with the creep crack growth rate, which will predict the creep characteristics of these materials.

Load Line Displacement Partitioning in Creep Crack Growth Analyses of 316H Stainless Steel

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Jones ◽  
Kamran M. Nikbin ◽  
Catrin M. Davies
Keyword(s):  
Crack Growth ◽  
Creep Crack Growth ◽  
Displacement Rate ◽  
Uniaxial Tensile ◽  
Growth Data ◽  
Creep Crack ◽  
Load Line ◽  
Load Line Displacement ◽  
Accelerated Creep ◽  
Tensile Data

Accelerated creep crack growth tests in the laboratory can lead to greater levels of plasticity at the tip of a creep crack than would be experienced in service. This is problematic when trying to determine C* which is used to model the stress field ahead of a crack. Deflection partitioning methods must be used in order to determine the contribution to the load line displacement rate as a result of creep which in turn is used to calculate C*. This partitioning can lead to negative values of the creep load line displacement rate due to the high contribution from plasticity. The amount of assumed plasticity is likely to be erroneously high as it is currently assumed that the material behaviour fits a Ramberg-Osgood model, when in reality such a fit does not predict the behaviour well over a large range of stress. This work compares the load line displacement determined from solutions based on a Ramberg-Osgood model with those calculated from finite element simulations using uniaxial tensile data to model the plasticity. The simulations formulated crack growth by means of a crack length vs time criterion using experimental crack growth data. It is found that the theoretical solutions do over predict the amount of plastic deformation compared to the numerical results. It is also found that for the short term test considered, the load-line displacement due to creep deformation was small compared to that from crack growth.

Finite Element Damage Analyses for Predictions of Creep Crack Growth

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang-Sik Oh ◽  
Nak-Hyun Kim ◽  
Sung-Hwan Min ◽  
Yun-Jae Kim
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Finite Element ◽  
Crack Growth ◽  
Damage Mechanics ◽  
Creep Crack Growth ◽  
Creep Damage ◽  
Simulation Method ◽  
Creep Tests ◽  
Creep Ductility ◽  
Creep Crack

This paper provides the virtual simulation method for creep crack growth test, based on finite element (FE) analyses with damage mechanics. Creep tests of smooth bars are used to quantify the constants of creep constitutive equation. The reduction of area resulting from creep tests of smooth and notched bar is adopted as a measure of creep ductility under multiaxial stress conditions. The creep ductility exhaustion concept is adopted for calculating creep damage, which is defined as the ratio of creep strain to the multiaxial creep ductility. To simulate crack propagation, fully damaged elements are forced to have nearly zero stresses using user-defined subroutine UHARD in the general-purpose FE code, ABAQUS. The results from 2D or 3D FE analyses are compared with experimental data of creep crack growth. It is shown that the predictions obtained from this new method are in good agreement with experimental data.

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