scholarly journals Effect of Strain Range on the Low Cycle Fatigue in Alloy 617 at High Temperature

Metals ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rando Dewa ◽  
Seon Kim ◽  
Woo Kim ◽  
Eung Kim
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Strain Range ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Alloy 617

scholarly journals A review of low-cycle fatigue of Alloy 617 for use in VHTR components: Experimental outlook

2018 ◽  
Vol 159 ◽  
pp. 02049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rando Tungga Dewa ◽  
Jeong-Hun Park ◽  
Seon-Jin Kim ◽  
Woo-Gon Kim ◽  
Eung-Seon Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Oxidation Behavior ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Strain Range ◽  
Fatigue Behaviour ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Alloy 617 ◽  
Surface Cracking ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Lower Temperature

The effect of strain range and temperature on the low-cycle fatigue behaviour and microstructure change during cyclic deformation of Alloy 617 for use in very high temperature gas-cooled reactor components were studied at elevated temperature starting from ambient condition. Increasing the strain range and the temperature was noticed to reduce the fatigue resistance of nickel-based Alloy 617 due to facilitating the transformation behavior of the carbides in the grain interior, precipitates along the grain boundary, and oxidation behavior inducing surface connected precipitates cracking. Initial hardening behavior was observed at room temperature condition during cyclic due to the pile-up dislocation of micro-precipitates. The grain size was also taking a role due to the formation of an obstacle in the matrix. In the high temperature regime, the alloy 617 was found to soften for its entire life due to the fast recovery deformation, proved by its higher plasticity compared with lower temperature. The deformation behavior also showing high environmentally assisted damage. Oxidation behavior was found to become the primary crack initiation, resulting in early intergranular surface cracking.

High-Temperature Low-Cycle Fatigue Behavior of MarBN at 600 °C

2016 ◽  
Vol 138 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Barrett ◽  
Eimear M. O'Hara ◽  
Padraic E. O'Donoghue ◽  
Sean B. Leen
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Kinematic Hardening ◽  
Fatigue Behavior ◽  
Strain Range ◽  
Material Model ◽  
Cyclic Softening ◽  
Cyclic Strength ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Viscoplastic Material

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.

Constitutive Modeling of Haynes 230 for High Temperature Fatigue-Creep Interactions

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul R. Barrett ◽  
Raasheduddin Ahmed ◽  
Tasnim Hassan
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Kinematic Hardening ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Strain Range ◽  
Uniaxial Stress ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
Creep Fatigue

Non-linear stress analysis for high temperature cyclic viscoplasticity is increasingly becoming an important modeling framework for many industries. Simplified analyses are found to be insufficient in accurately predicting the life of components; such as a gas turbine engine of an airplane or the intermediate-heat exchanger of a nuclear power plant. As a result, advanced material models for simulating nonlinear responses at room to high temperature are developed and experimentally validated against a broad set of low-cycle fatigue responses; such as creep, fatigue, and their interactions under uniaxial stress states. . This study will evaluate a unified viscoplastic model based on nonlinear kinematic hardening (Chaboche type) with several added features of strain-range-dependence, rate-dependence, temperature-dependence, static recovery, and mean-stress-evolution for Haynes 230database. Simulation-based model development for isothermal creep-fatigue responses are all critically evaluated for the developed model. The robustness of the constitutive model is demonstrated and weaknesses of the model to accurately predict low-cycle fatigue responses are identified. Paper published with permission.

Low Cycle Fatigue and Creep-Fatigue Behavior of Alloy 617 at High Temperature

2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Celine Cabet ◽  
Laura Carroll ◽  
Richard Wright
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Fatigue Testing ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Fatigue Behavior ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Hold Time ◽  
Outlet Temperature ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Alloy 617 ◽  
Creep Fatigue

Alloy 617 is the leading candidate material for an intermediate heat exchanger (IHX) application of the very high temperature nuclear reactor (VHTR), expected to have an outlet temperature as high as 950 °C. Acceptance of Alloy 617 in Section III of the ASME Code for nuclear construction requires a detailed understanding of the creep-fatigue behavior. Initial creep-fatigue work on Alloy 617 suggests a more dominant role of environment with increasing temperature and/or hold times evidenced through changes in creep-fatigue crack growth mechanisms and failure life. Continuous cycle fatigue and creep-fatigue testing of Alloy 617 was conducted at 950 °C and 0.3% and 0.6% total strain in air to simulate damage modes expected in a VHTR application. Continuous cycle fatigue specimens exhibited transgranular cracking. Intergranular cracking was observed in the creep-fatigue specimens and the addition of a hold time at peak tensile strain degraded the cycle life. This suggests that creep-fatigue interaction occurs and that the environment may be partially responsible for accelerating failure.

Low Cycle Fatigue of Alloy 617 at 850 °C and 950 °C

2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. K. Wright ◽  
L. J. Carroll ◽  
J. A. Simpson ◽  
R. N. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Strain Rate ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Fatigue Behavior ◽  
Strain Range ◽  
Cyclic Hardening ◽  
Solute Drag ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Alloy 617 ◽  
Total Strain Range ◽  
Cycles To Failure

The low cycle fatigue behavior of Alloy 617 has been evaluated at 850 °C and 950 °C, the temperature range of particular interest for the intermediate heat exchanger on a proposed high-temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactor. Cycles to failure were measured as a function of total strain range and varying strain rate. Results of the current experiments compare well with previous work reported in the literature for a similar range of temperatures and strain rate. The combined data demonstrate a Coffin–Manson relationship, although the slope of the Coffin–Manson fit is close to −1 rather than the typically reported value of −0.5. At 850 °C and a strain rate of 10−3 /s Alloy 617 deforms by a plastic flow mechanism in low cycle fatigue and exhibits some cyclic hardening. At 950 °C for strain rates of 10−3–10−5 /s, Alloy 617 deforms by a solute drag creep mechanism during low cycle fatigue and does not show significant cyclic hardening or softening. At this temperature the strain rate has little influence on the cycles to failure for the strain ranges tested.

scholarly journals Constitutive Modeling of High Temperature Uniaxial Creep-Fatigue and Creep-Ratcheting Responses of Alloy 617

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Pritchard ◽  
L. Carroll ◽  
T. Hassan
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Strain Range ◽  
Cyclic Hardening ◽  
Parameter Determination ◽  
Model Framework ◽  
Alloy 617 ◽  
North Carolina State University ◽  
Uniaxial Creep ◽  
Creep Fatigue

Inconel Alloy 617 is a high temperature creep and corrosion resistant alloy and is a leading candidate for use in Intermediate Heat Exchangers (IHX) of the Next Generation Nuclear Plants (NGNP). The IHX of the NGNP is expected to experience operating temperatures in the range of 800°–950°C, which is in the creep regime of Alloy 617. A broad set of uniaxial, low-cycle fatigue, fatigue-creep, ratcheting, and ratcheting-creep experiments are conducted in order to study the fatigue and ratcheting responses, and their interactions with the creep response at high temperatures. A unified constitutive model developed at North Carolina State University is used to simulate these experimental responses. The model is developed based on the Chaboche viscoplastic model framework. It includes cyclic hardening/softening, strain rate dependence, strain range dependence, static and dynamic recovery modeling features. For simulation of the alloy 617 responses, new techniques of model parameter determination are developed for optimized simulations. This paper compares the experimental responses and model simulations for demonstrating the strengths and shortcomings of the model.

scholarly journals Low Cycle Fatigue Behaviors of Alloy 617 (INCONEL 617) Weldments for High Temperature Applications

Metals ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rando Dewa ◽  
Seon Kim ◽  
Woo Kim ◽  
Eung Kim
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Alloy 617 ◽  
Inconel 617 ◽  
Temperature Applications

Fatigue damage characterisation of MarBN steel for high temperature flexible operating conditions

2016 ◽  
Vol 231 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 23-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
EM O’Hara ◽  
NM Harrison ◽  
BK Polomski ◽  
RA Barrett ◽  
SB Leen
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Fatigue Damage ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Microstructural Analysis ◽  
Strain Range ◽  
Fatigue Behaviour ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Fracture Mechanisms ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Cycle Fatigue

This article is concerned with the high temperature low cycle fatigue behaviour of a new nano-strengthened martensitic-ferritic steel, MarBN. A range of strain-controlled, low cycle fatigue tests are presented on MarBN at 600 ℃ and 650 ℃, and compared with previously published data for a current state-of-the-art material, P91 steel, including microstructural analysis of the fracture mechanisms. A modified Chaboche damage law, incorporating Coffin–Manson life prediction, is implemented within a hyperbolic sine unified cyclic viscoplastic constitutive model. Calibration and validation of the model with respect to the effects of strain-rate and strain-range is performed based on an optimisation procedure for identification of the material parameters. The cyclic viscoplasticity model with damage successfully predicts fatigue damage evolution and life in the cyclically softening materials, MarBN and P91.

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