ISSN:
1662-8985
Source:
Scientific.Net: Materials Science & Technology / Trans Tech Publications Archiv 1984-2008
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
Notes:
In structural welded joints after long-term service under elevated temperature, fractureoccurred mainly in the heat affected zone (HAZ). Recently, the nucleation and growth of creep voidsin the fine-grained HAZ of weldments, recognized as Type IV fracture, has become an importantproblem for ferritic heat resisting steel. In this paper, a new computational model was presented toanalyse the void growth induced creep damage development in HAZ. The new constitutive modelbased on continuum damage mechanics (CDM) equations is combined with amicromechanism-based model in order to account for the void growth process, which is differentfrom the previous studies of creep damage. Material properties used for the creep damagecomputations are fitted from actual creep test data. Basic benchmark tests were performed to verifythe new computational model. Then the model was used to study the creep damage development inthe welded joints where four different material properties, base material, coarse-grained HAZ,fine-grained HAZ, and weld material, are taken into account. The numerical simulation results forcreep lifetimes agreed well with the experimental results
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://www.tib-hannover.de/fulltexts/2011/0528/01/40/transtech_doi~10.4028%252Fwww.scientific.net%252FAMR.33-37.441.pdf
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