Establishment of unified creep–fatigue life prediction under various temperatures and investigation of failure physical mechanism for Type 304 stainless steel
Le Xu
Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu-shi, Shiga, Japan
Search for more papers by this authorRun-Zi Wang
Fracture and Reliability Research Institute, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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Lei He
College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu-shi, Shiga, Japan
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Lei He, College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, 1-1-1 Nojihigashi, Kusatsu-shi, Shiga, 525-8577, Japan.
Email: [email protected]
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Key Laboratory of Pressure Systems and Safety, Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Search for more papers by this authorShan-Tung Tu
Key Laboratory of Pressure Systems and Safety, Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Search for more papers by this authorHideo Miura
Fracture and Reliability Research Institute, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Search for more papers by this authorTakamoto Itoh
College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu-shi, Shiga, Japan
Search for more papers by this authorLe Xu
Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu-shi, Shiga, Japan
Search for more papers by this authorRun-Zi Wang
Fracture and Reliability Research Institute, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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Lei He
College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu-shi, Shiga, Japan
Correspondence
Lei He, College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, 1-1-1 Nojihigashi, Kusatsu-shi, Shiga, 525-8577, Japan.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorXian-Cheng Zhang
Key Laboratory of Pressure Systems and Safety, Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Search for more papers by this authorShan-Tung Tu
Key Laboratory of Pressure Systems and Safety, Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Search for more papers by this authorHideo Miura
Fracture and Reliability Research Institute, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Search for more papers by this authorTakamoto Itoh
College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu-shi, Shiga, Japan
Search for more papers by this authorFunding information: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant/Award Numbers: JP18K03854, 21F50350; Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research in Japan, Grant/Award Numbers: FY2020, P20350; National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant/Award Numbers: 52005185, 51725503, U21B2077; China Scholarship Council, Grant/Award Number: csc201906745018
Abstract
Investigations into creep–fatigue life and the corresponding failure physical mechanism are crucial for guaranteeing the structural integrity of components. In this work, a series of strain-controlled fatigue and creep–fatigue tests were performed at different temperatures. Then, the EBSD-TEM combinative analysis was performed to reveal the microstructure evolution. The creep failure parameter dependence derived from standard creep experimental data and their importance in further creep–fatigue employment were discussed. Results show that strain energy density has better relevance than ductility in connecting with creep failure. The temperature-dependent critical strain energy density and an equivalent failure strain energy density, considering geometric effect, were incorporated with the current energy-based model, which enables creep–fatigue life scatter within a factor of 1.5. Moreover, multi-slip activations and severe slip interactions under creep–fatigue conditions were responsible for the ultimately lifetime reductions based on microstructure observations.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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