Models for Calculating the Effect of Environment on Fatigue Life (Fen) for Complex Waveforms and/or Non-Isothermal Conditions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Currie ◽  
Andrew Morley ◽  
Norman Platts ◽  
Marius Twite ◽  
Keith Wright
Keyword(s):  
Strain Rate ◽  
Test Data ◽  
Deleterious Effect ◽  
Load Cycle ◽  
Temperature Cycling ◽  
Plant Materials ◽  
Endurance Testing ◽  
Approach Method ◽  
Rate Method ◽  
Fatigue Endurance

Environmentally assisted fatigue of nuclear plant materials in the Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR) coolant environment is a phenomenon that has been extensively studied over the past 30 years. Methods for accounting for the PWR environment in an ASME III fatigue assessment are presented in NUREG/CR-6909. The deleterious effect of environment is described through a Fen factor dependent upon strain rate, temperature and the dissolved oxygen content of the water. The formulae which describe the Fen are based upon correlations observed in test data predominantly from tests conducted with constant temperature and strain rate (triangular or sawtooth loading). Actual loading histories encountered during service are far more complex, with both strain rate and temperature, and therefore Fen, varying through the cycle. NUREG/CR-6909 recommends a modified rate approach method for accounting for this, whereby the load cycle is broken up into a number of strain increments and then integrated to give the Fen for the cycle. There is a substantial and growing body of data for conditions in which the strain rate or temperature or both changes. The NUREG/CR-6909 modified rate approach does not generally perform well in describing the deleterious effect of environment in these complex conditions. In particular, the modified rate approach does not predict a difference in life when the temperature is varied in-phase or out-of-phase with the strain waveform, or when the slow portion of the strain rate is moved from the top to the bottom of the waveform. This paper presents new data from strain-controlled fatigue endurance testing of two casts of 304L with complex waveforms and temperature cycling. The paper then presents and compares a number of models for integrating the Fen through the cycle, including methods which weight Fen increments depending on position in the strain cycle. It is concluded that greater weighting on the environmental effect in the top of the cycle is necessary to describe the differences in life observed. This is further validated by a review of test data in the wider literature. An improved method is presented to account for the effects of the PWR environment on fatigue lives of austenitic stainless steel materials, which has similarities to the “Weighted K Rate” method previously presented by Rolls-Royce, PVP2016-63497, for environmentally assisted fatigue crack growth.

Further Validation of the Strain-Life Weighted (SNW) Fen Method for Plant Realistic Strain and Temperature Waveforms

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Currie ◽  
Andrew Morley ◽  
Daniel Leary ◽  
Norman Platts ◽  
Marius Twite ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Strain Rate ◽  
Deleterious Effect ◽  
Load Cycle ◽  
Validation Data ◽  
Plant Materials ◽  
Waveform Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Validation Testing ◽  
Prediction Capability

Environmentally assisted fatigue of nuclear plant materials in the Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR) coolant environment is a phenomenon that has been extensively studied over the past 30 years. Methods for accounting for the PWR environment in an ASME Section III fatigue assessment are presented in NUREG/CR-6909. The deleterious effect of environment is described through a Fen factor dependent upon strain rate, temperature and the dissolved oxygen content of the water. The formulae which describe the Fen are based upon correlations observed in test data, predominantly from tests conducted with constant temperature and strain rate (triangular or sawtooth loading). Actual loading histories encountered during service are far more complex, with both strain rate and temperature, and therefore Fen, varying through the cycle. NUREG/CR-6909 Draft Rev 1 recommends the Modified Rate Approach (MRA) to account for this type of loading. There is a substantial and growing body of data for conditions in which the strain rate and/or temperature change within the load cycle, for which MRA does not generally perform well in describing the deleterious effect of environment in these complex waveform conditions. In particular, MRA does not predict the observed difference in life when the temperature is varied in-phase or out-of-phase within the strain waveform, or when the slow portion of the strain rate is moved from the top to the bottom of the waveform. An alternative approach called the Strain-Life Weighted (SNW) Fen method was presented in PVP2017-66030 and additional validation testing was proposed. This paper develops the SNW method further into a general approach for all stainless steels and presents additional new validation data, including a range of isothermal and non-isothermal plant realistic waveforms and a more extensive review of open literature data. It is concluded that the SNW method offers a significant improvement in fatigue life prediction capability for plant realistic complex waveforms compared to MRA and provides residuals similar to that of standard waveform data. It is thus considered to be suitably validated to propose a code case for use in ASME Section III fatigue assessments.

Determination of Strain Rate Depended Stress and Strain Fields in PVD Coatings on Cemented Carbide Inserts during the Repetitive Impact Test

2020 ◽  
Vol 404 ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
Antonios Bouzakis ◽  
Georgios Skordaris ◽  
Konstantinos Dionysios Bouzakis ◽  
Mehmet Gökhan Gökcen ◽  
Apostolos Boumpakis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Strain Rate ◽  
Cemented Carbide ◽  
Stress And Strain ◽  
Strain Fields ◽  
Rate Dependent ◽  
Impact Forces ◽  
Repetitive Impact ◽  
Carbide Inserts ◽  
Fatigue Endurance

Recently, stress, strain, strain-rate dependent curves for cemented carbide have become an established tool for evaluating the mechanical properties. In this paper, related strain-rate dependent data of a K05 insert were employed to define the developed stress and strain fields occurring in the compound coating-substrate at impact forces of various durations. In this way, the occurring maximum strains at various impact loads and times were analytically calculated. These maximum values and related fatigue endurance coating strain-rate dependent limits were consequently used to validate published coating fatigue critical impact forces associated with certain impact times.

Effects of Continuous Strain Rate Changing on Environmental Fatigue for Stainless Steels in PWR Environment

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuichiro Nomura ◽  
Seiji Asada ◽  
Takao Nakamura ◽  
Masakazu Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Sine Wave ◽  
Fatigue Tests ◽  
Integral Model ◽  
Strain Rates ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Approach Method ◽  
The Difference

The strain rates in actual transients of operating plants are not constant and changing momentarily. A large number of fatigue tests under stepwise strain rate changing conditions were performed to develop a method for evaluating fatigue life under varying strain rate conditions. Based on these test results, a strain base integral model known as the named the modified rate approach method was developed and verified. However it was reported recently that in the case of sine wave fatigue tests in BWR environment, the fatigue life was two to six times longer than the fatigue life predicted by the modified rate approach method. For this paper, in order to confirm whether the same tendency is observed in PWR environment, fatigue tests of sine wave were performed of SS316 in simulated PWR water environment. As the result, the difference of fatigue life by sine wave test reported in BWR environment was not observed between experimental and predicted life in PWR environment and the modified rate approach method was applicable under continuous strain rate changing condition.

Revised and New Proposal of Environmental Fatigue Life Correction Factor (Fen) for Carbon and Low-Alloy Steels and Nickel Base Alloys in LWR Water Environments

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Makoto Higuchi ◽  
Katsumi Sakaguchi ◽  
Akihiko Hirano ◽  
Yuichiro Nomura
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Dissolved Oxygen ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
Test Data ◽  
Base Alloy ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Low Alloy Steels ◽  
Alloy Steels ◽  
Nickel Base ◽  
Fatigue Life Reduction

Low cycle fatigue life of carbon and low alloy steels reduces remarkably as functions of strain rate, temperature, dissolved oxygen and sulfur in steel in high temperature water simulating LWR coolant. A model for predicting such fatigue life reduction was first proposed in the early 1980s and since then has been revised several times. The existing model established in 2000 is used for the MITI Guideline [6] and the TENPES Guideline [7] which stipulate procedures for evaluating environmental fatigue damage at LWR plants in Japan. This paper presents the most recent environmental fatigue evaluation model derived based on additional fatigue data provided by the EFT Project over the past five years. This model differs not significantly with previous version but does provide more accurate equations for the susceptibility of fatigue life to sulfur in steel, strain rate, temperature and dissolved oxygen. Test data on environmental fatigue of nickel base alloys are available only to a limited extent and there is yet no model for predicting fatigue life reduction in such an environment. The EFT Project has made available considerable environmental fatigue test data and developed a new model for calculating Fen of nickel base alloys. The contribution of environment to fatigue of nickel base alloy is much less compared to that in austenitic stainless steel.

A Study of Creep Behavior of TSV-Cu Based on Nanoindentaion Creep Test

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 717-724 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Wu ◽  
F. Qin ◽  
T. An ◽  
P. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Strain Rate ◽  
Creep Behavior ◽  
Rate Sensitivity ◽  
Constant Load ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Creep Tests ◽  
Rate Method ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Previous Loading ◽  
Indentation Strain

AbstractThrough-Silicon-Via (TSV) is considered to be the most potential solution for 3D electronic packaging, and the mechanical properties of TSV-Cu are critical for TSV reliability improving. In this paper, to make deeply understand the creep behavior of TSV-Cu, nanoindentation creep tests were conducted to obtain its creep parameters. At first, the TSV specimens were fabricated by means of a typical TSV manufacturing process. Then a combination programmable procedure of the constant indentation strain rate method and the constant load method was employed to study the creep behavior of TSV-Cu. To understand the influence of the previous loading schemes, including the different values of the indentation strain and the maximum depths, the nanoindentation creep tests under different loading conditions were conducted. The values of creep strain rate sensitivity m were derived from the corresponding displacement-holding time curves, and the mean value of m finally determined was 0.0149. The value of m is considered no obvious correlation with the different indentation strain rates and the maximum depths by this method. Furthermore, the mechanism for the room temperature creep was also discussed, and the grain boundaries might play an significant role in this creep behavior.

Mechanical Behavior and Constitutive Equation of Concrete under High-Temperature Dynamical Conditions

2011 ◽  
Vol 228-229 ◽  
pp. 303-308
Author(s):  
Bin Jia ◽  
Zheng Liang Li ◽  
Jun Lin Tao ◽  
Chun Tao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Constitutive Equation ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
Mechanical Behavior ◽  
Test Data ◽  
Dynamical Behavior ◽  
Hardening Effect ◽  
Failure Evolution ◽  
Different Temperatures ◽  
Strain Rate Hardening

SPHB tests of concrete under different temperatures and various loading conditions are completed, and high-temperature dynamical behavior of concrete is obtained. Dynamical mechanical behavior of concrete with high temperature is affected by not only the strain rate effect, but also the high temperature weakening effect, and the strain rate hardening effect is coupled with high temperature weakening effect, but the latter has greater influence. Concrete failure evolution is described on basis of the damage factor, the intercoupling strain rate hardening effect and temperature weakening effect are simply set as mutually independent factors, each parameter is respectively fitted with test data, finally, concrete constitutive equation under high-temperature dynamical conditions is established, and comparative analysis with test data are conducted, indicating good coincidence with test results.

Constitutive Model of Supper-Alloy IN625 Based on Extrusion Test

2011 ◽  
Vol 314-316 ◽  
pp. 819-822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhong Tang Wang ◽  
Shi Hong Zhang ◽  
Ming Cheng ◽  
De Fu Li
Keyword(s):  
Constitutive Model ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
Test Data ◽  
Arrhenius Equation ◽  
New Method ◽  
Extrusion Speed ◽  
Material Constitutive Model ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Calculation Results ◽  
Relative Errors

Abstract: It had been put forward that a new method to establish material constitutive model based on extrusion test, which was that the material constitutive model was determined with the Arrhenius equation according to the extrusion test data. The tube extruding test of supper-alloy Inconel625(IN625) had been done on 16300kN extrusion machine. According to the extrusion test data and the Arrhenius equation, it had been determined that the constitutive model of supper-alloy IN625 based on extrusion test, and the relative errors between calculation results of the model and experiment results are less than 7.8%. The suitable conditions of the constitutive model of supper-alloy IN625 are that the temperature being 1150°C～1200°C, and extrusion speed being 15～60mm/s, and strain-rate being 1.86～7.44.

scholarly journals Small Two-Bar Specimen Creep Testing of Grade P91 Steel at 650°C

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-252
Author(s):  
Balhassn S. M. Ali ◽  
Tom H. Hyde ◽  
Wei Sun
Keyword(s):  
Strain Rate ◽  
Creep Strain ◽  
Test Data ◽  
Creep Test ◽  
Uniaxial Stress ◽  
Creep Rupture ◽  
Creep Strain Rate ◽  
P91 Steel ◽  
Uniaxial Creep ◽  
Rupture Data

AbstractCommonly used small creep specimen types, such as ring and impression creep specimens, are capable of providing minimum creep strain rate data from small volumes of material. However, these test types are unable to provide the creep rupture data. In this paper the recently developed two-bar specimen type, which can be used to obtain minimum creep strain rate and creep rupture creep data from small volumes of material, is described. Conversion relationships are used to convert (i) the applied load to the equivalent uniaxial stress, and (ii) the load line deformation rate to the equivalent uniaxial creep strain rate. The effects of the specimen dimension ratios on the conversion factors are also discussed in this paper. This paper also shows comparisons between two-bar specimen creep test data and the corresponding uniaxial creep test data, for grade P91 steel at 650°C.

scholarly journals Study on Sulfide Cracking of Mild Steel by Constant Strain Rate Method

1974 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-254
Author(s):  
Asahi Kawashima ◽  
Michinori Takano ◽  
Koji Hashimoto ◽  
Saburo Shimodaira
Keyword(s):  
Mild Steel ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
Constant Strain Rate ◽  
Rate Method
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