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Abstract
It is understood that grain boundary cavitation is one of the detrimental processes for the degradation of austenitic stainless
steels that reduces the creepfatigue life at high temperatures. A new damage function based on a model for the creepfatigue
life prediction in terms of nucleation and growth of grain boundary cavities is proposed for austenitic stainless steel. This damage
function is a combination of the fatigue and creep terms related to the cavitational damage (cavity nucleation and growth) in the
life prediction equation and is found to be generally applicable to all the materials in which failure is controlled by the grain
boundary cavitational damage. The creepfatigue data from the present and other investigations are used to check the validity
of the proposed damage function, and it is shown that they satisfy the general reliability of damage function. Additionally, using
this damage function, one may realize that all the Coffin Manson plots at the various levels of tensile hold time and temperature
under strain controlled creepfatigue tests can be normalized to make the master curve. Using this master curve, one may easily
calculate the expected creepfatigue life for austenitic stainless steels under tensile hold high temperature low cycle fatigue test
conditions to save much of the testing time and effort. 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Austenitic stainless steel; Creepfatigue; Grain boundary cavitation; Damage function; Hold time
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as the temperature and hold time vary. Accordingly, cycle is proportional to the plastic strain range. There-
using a Coffin Manson relation obtained for a given fore, the number of nucleated cavities during cyclic
condition, one cannot predict the expected fatigue life loading per unit area of grain boundary, n, is assumed
for other conditions. to be
This presentation introduces a new concept of the
n= P Dmp N, (2)
damage function which can normalize all the Coffin
Manson relations generated under the various condi- where P, Dmp and N are the cavity nucleation factor, the
tions of different strain range, tensile hold time and plastic strain range, and the number of cycles,
temperature. A model for the creep fatigue life predic- respectively.
tion in terms of nucleation and growth of grain These generated cavities are assumed to grow during
boundary cavities [4] is used in the derivation of the the hold time period at the tensile peak strain by grain
damage function. In addition to this function, a new boundary diffusion of vacancies. The Hull Rimmer
parameter called the cavity nucleation factor, is intro- model [14] for the diffusional growth of cavities at grain
duced to explain the relationship between the probabil- boundary is introduced into the model to provide a
ity of cavity nucleation and the density of grain good approximation of cavity growth, but the stress
boundary carbides. term of the original HullRimmer equation had to be
modified as a function of hold time, t, because load
relaxation occurs during the tensile hold time in creep
2. Main damage fatigue interaction;
dA 2ylDgV|(t)
It has been reported by the present author that the = , (3)
grain boundary cavities are formed and grown at car- dt kTl
bides at the grain boundaries in austenitic stainless steel where A is the cavitated area of a given cavity, l is the
under tensile hold during strain-controlled low cycle thickness of grain boundary, l is the cavity spacing, Dg
fatigue [4]. is the grain boundary diffusivity, d is the atomic vol-
The cavities were found to have nucleated during the ume, |(t) is the tensile peak stress relaxation term
fatigue cycle. In other words, the number of cavities during hold time, k and T are the Boltzmans constant
increased with increasing the number of fatigue cycles. and temperature in absolute scale, respectively.
The cavities were observed to grow only under tensile It is assumed that the same repeated process is con-
hold part of strain and not under compressive hold. tinued throughout fatigue cycling until the total cavi-
During the tensile hold period, the peak stress relaxes tated area on grain boundaries reaches its critical value.
with time to give a creep effect thereby leading to cavity The expression for the total cavitated area is given by
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growth. For steels which have well-defined grain the following Eq. (4).
boundaries and thermodynamically stable phases (for
2 2ylDgV t
example, austenitic stainless steel), the main damage At = P 3/2Dm 3/2
p N
5/2
|(t) dt. (4)
under high temperature creep fatigue interaction is 5 kT 0
reported to be the nucleation and growth of grain At the critical number of cycles to failure (Ncr), it is
boundary cavities. assumed that the load carrying capacity is drastically
reduced by coalescence of grain boundary cavities and
unstable crack growth begins. The failure due to the
3. Proposed life prediction model creepfatigue interaction is then controlled by creep
cavitational damage rather than by a process of fatigue
In 1985, the present author published a paper to crack initiation and propagation. Thus, from the above
introduce a model for life prediction during low-cycle equation, the critical number of cycles to failure by the
fatigue with a hold time at tensile peak strains. This mechanism of cavity formation and growth at the grain
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model was based on the idea of cavity nucleation and boundaries is given by [4],
growth at the grain boundaries under creep fatigue
cycling conditions. It was assumed that the mechani- Ncr = C(P Dmp) 3/5
exp( Qg/RT) t
|(t) dt
n 2/5
,
cally generated vacancies during tensile portion of fa- T 0
(5)
tigue lead to cavity nucleation (fatigue effect), which
subsequently grow during the tensile hold time period where,
(creep effect). 2/5
4yVlD0
This model rationalized that vacancies are formed C= ,
athermally by plastic deformation during fatigue cycle 5kAt
and cluster to form cavities at the grain boundaries. where Qg is the activation energy of grain boundary
Also, it is assumed that the number of cavities in a diffusion and C is a material-dependent constant. Using
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the experimentally obtained fatigue life at a given con- with the experimental data for AISI 304 stainless steel
dition (i.e. a specific temperature, strain range and and AISI 316 stainless steel for various hold time
tensile hold time), P in Eq. (5) is calculated by formu- periods [4].
lating the experimental life to be the same as the However, the available data used to check the reli-
predicted life at the given condition. Using the calcu- ability of the model was very limited, since they covered
lated value of P, the creep fatigue lives with other with only one or two strain ranges.
strain ranges and hold times can be calculated. Recently, as shown in Fig. 1, the present investigator
This equation for life prediction was verified with observed that the predictions from Eq. (5) using a
published experimental data obtained over a limited constant value of P were poor for various strain range
tests due to the dependence of the cavity nucleation
strain range test conditions [4]. It was shown that the
factor on the plastic strain range (Fig. 2) [7].
predicted creepfatigue lives were in good agreement
This systematic deviation indicates that if different
values of P is used for the different strain range test one
may bring all the plots on one straight line. Therefore,
the cavity nucleation factor, P, in Eq. (2) was assumed
to be a function of plastic strain range [7],
P= P%Dm m%
p , (6)
where P% is a new cavity nucleation factor related with
the density of grain boundary carbide and m% is a
numerical constant whose value is found to be in the
range of 0.5 2. Having the values of P% and m% from
the very limited number of tests for a given tempera-
ture, one may predict fatigue lives for many different
temperature regime.
Substituting Eq. (6) into Eq. (2), the number of
cavities in a cycle is represented by the equation.
n= P%Dm m
p N, (7)
where m= m% +1. From this expression, the modified
equation for life prediction is obtained as follows [7];
Fig. 1. Comparison between predicted lives calculated from Eq. (5)
and experimental lives for AISI 316 stainless steel [2]. The number
Ncr = C%(Dmp) 3m/5
exp( Qg/RT) n 2/5
, (8)
T
adjacent to each datum point indicates the tensile hold time in
minutes. where,
2/5
4yVlD0
C%= (p%) 3/5.
5kAt
Using Eq. (8), it is confirmed that the predicted lives
are found to be in good agreement with the experimen-
tal ones, as shown in Fig. 3 [7].
In Eq. (8), C% involves only the material and physical
constants. Excluding C%, the right side of Eq. (8) re-
mains the terms which is related with the cavity nucle-
ation and growth. Therefore, using these terms, one
may derive the cavitational damage function.
Fig. 4. SEM micrographs showing the distribution of grain boundary carbides for three different AISI 304L stainless steels containing: (a) 0.028
wt.% (CSS); (b) 0.09 wt.% (PSS1); (c) 0.209 wt.% (PSS2) of phosphorus.
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6. Damage function
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DC F, is defined.
t 2/3
exp( Qg/RT)
DC F
Dm m
p |(t)dt . (10)
T 0
Fig. 7. (a) Coffin Manson plot for AISI 316 stainless steel for
different tensile hold time; (b) Coffin Manson plot for AISI 316
stainless steel [2]. The number at each datum point indicates the
tensile hold time in minutes.
condition.
In Eq. (10), the value of the numerical constant,
m(= m%+1), has to be known for calculating the dam-
age function (DC F). As stated previously [7], regarding
the dependence of the cavity nucleation factor on plas-
tic strain range, the value of m% can be calculated from
the slope of a log (plastic strain range)log (cavity
nucleation factor) plot. Fig. 9 shows the variation of
the values of the cavity nucleation factor with plastic
strain range for various materials, and the calculated
value of m% is indicated in the figure.
Substituting the results of the creepfatigue tests
Fig. 6. (a) Coffin Manson plot for AISI 304 stainless steel. The
listed in the Tables III through VII in reference [47] and
number at each datum point indicates the tensile hold time in the values of the numerical constant, m%, for these
minutes; (b) Coffin Manson plot for AISI 304 stainless steel [19]. alloys into Eq. (11), one may get the plots shown in
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Fig. 10. Normalized Coffin Manson plot for AISI 304 stainless steel.
The number at each datum point indicates the tensile hold time in
minutes.
Fig. 11. Normalized Coffin Manson plot for AISI 316 stainless steel.
The number at each datum point indicates the tensile hold time in
minutes.
figures the measured value of the slope of the normal- operational parameters such as working stress level,
ized Coffin Manson plot is found to be l.62 operational temperature, and/or duration of working
l.66. Comparing these values with the predicted value period if the expected life is known.
( l.67) in Eq. (11), it is seen that they are in excellent
agreement with the calculated value of the slope. This
result reasonably supports the fact that the proposed 8. Conclusions
new damage function represents the accumulation of
the creep cavitational damage in creep fatigue cycling. (1) A new cavitational damage function which is
In summary, the proposed model based on the accu- expressed in terms of several experimental variables is
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mulation of cavitational damage on grain boundary is derived.
considered to be a good explanation for defining the t 2/3
exp( Qg/RT)
damage function under creep fatigue condition. The DC-F
Dm m
p |(t)dt
significant meaning of this new function is that it can T 0
predict the fatigue life with tensile hold time by estimat- (2) The proposed damage function is shown to nor-
ing a damage function, or it can give the design and malize all the test results of stainless steels under creep
Fig. 12. (a) Normalized CoffinManson plot for AISI 316 stainless steel [2]. The number at each datum point indicates the tensile hold time in
minutes; (b) Normalized CoffinManson plot for AISI 304 stainless steel [19]. The number at each datum point indicates the tensile hold time
in minutes; (c) Normalized CoffinManson plot for INCOLOY 800 stainless steel [20]. The number at each datum point indicates the tensile hold
time in minutes.
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