Predicting failure modes in creep and creep-fatigue crack growth using a random grain/grain boundary idealised microstructure meshing system
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Author(s)
Zhao, Lei
Xu, Lianyong
Nikbin, Kamran
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
An idealised microstructure mesh model combined with a novel creep and creep-fatigue damage accumulation model was employed to simulate crack growth behaviour under creep/fatigue conditions for a modified 9Cr-1Mo steel. The influence of microstructures on the crack growth behaviour was studied using a random grains separated by idealised grain boundaries. For accurately representing the damage accumulation in creep-fatigue regime, a non-linear damage model was employed. In this case, creep damage was determined by multiaxial ductility exhaustion approach and fatigue damage was reliant on maximum stress and plastic range ahead of crack tip per loading cycle. When creep dominated, cracks mainly propagated along grain boundaries in steady crack growth stage. As an exception, the crack growth in the tertiary crack growth stage gradually changed from intergranular to mixed model and finally transgranular fracture. In contrast, in creep-fatigue regime, the crack growth behaviour was greatly reliant on the dwell time. For short duration period, the crack mainly propagated in a transgranular manner. But as the dwell time increased to greater than 600 s, the creep intergranular fracture dominated once again. Furthermore, the grain size gradient had little influence on the crack growth model and only affected the fracture life in creep and creep-fatigue regimes.
Date Issued
2017-09-17
Date Acceptance
2017-08-09
Citation
Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing, 2017, 704, pp.274-286
ISSN
0921-5093
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
274
End Page
286
Journal / Book Title
Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing
Volume
704
Copyright Statement
© 2017, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering
Science & Technology - Other Topics
Materials Science
Creep-fatigue regime
Damage model
Microstructural modelling
Crack growth
STEEL WELDED-JOINT
LOW-CYCLE FATIGUE
650 DEGREES-C
ENGINEERING ALLOYS
STAINLESS-STEEL
BEHAVIOR
DAMAGE
TEMPERATURE
GRAIN
SUPERALLOY
Publication Status
Published