Characterizing high temperature crack growth behaviour under mixed
environmental, creep and fatigue conditions
environmental, creep and fatigue conditions
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Author(s)
Zhao, lei
Nikbin, KM
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Components in high temperature plant could undergo failure due to combinations of fatigue, creep or oxidation/corrosion depending on the loading, temperature and environmental conditions. A novel and robust approach for a progressive failure modelling is presented in this paper which for the first time attempts to combine these failure mechanisms as time or cycle dependent processes. In this study, a combined multiaxial inter/transgranular crack growth model at the meso-scale level was proposed to conveniently deal with the various failure scenarios that may exist in plant components. The simulated crack under the combinations of time dependent creep and oxidation mainly propagated along grain boundaries initiating from the notch surface, exhibiting an irregular shapes with crack branching. Whereas under fatigue/oxidation condition, the crack grew in a transgranular manner. Furthermore, the role of creep, fatigue and oxidation on the failure life was dependent on the applied duration period at peak loads. Cracks were prone to nucleate in transgranular and then propagate in intergranular. There existed competitions between creep, fatigue and oxidation damage. Finally, the failure modes due to different damage mechanisms and loading conditions in the cases of creep-fatigue-oxidation were proposed. The calculated failure modes corresponded with those observed in engineering alloys.
Date Issued
2018-06-13
Date Acceptance
2018-04-25
Citation
Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing, 2018, 728 (1), pp.102-114
ISSN
0921-5093
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
102
End Page
114
Journal / Book Title
Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing
Volume
728
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
© 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Identifier
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921509318306294
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering
Science & Technology - Other Topics
Materials Science
Creep-oxidation
Creep-oxidation-fatigue
Crack growth mechanism
Micro-meso modelling
LOW-CYCLE FATIGUE
DEGREES-C
MICROSTRUCTURAL CHANGES
DAMAGE ACCUMULATION
ENGINEERING ALLOYS
LIFE PREDICTION
STEEL
OXIDATION
MECHANISMS
SUPERALLOY
0910 Manufacturing Engineering
0912 Materials Engineering
0913 Mechanical Engineering
Materials
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2018-04-27