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Simulation of the fatigue behaviour of a power plant steel with a damage variable

Lu, Jiawa; Sun, Wei; Becker, Adib A.; Saad, Abdullah Aziz

Authors

Jiawa Lu

Wei Sun

Adib A. Becker

Abdullah Aziz Saad



Abstract

The fatigue behaviour of a 9Cr power plant steel at a temperature of 600 °C was studied by uniaxial fatigue tests and microstructural analysis using electron microscopy. A continuum damage mechanics apporach was coupled to the constitutive equations of the Chaboche elasto-visco-plastic model to describe the fatigue behaviour of the 9Cr power plant steel at 600 °C. A stress partition method is introduced to understand the fatigue softening behaviour, and used to give an initial estimate of the material constants in the Chaboche model. Further optimisation procedures with plastic strain range dependency of the material constants were introduced in the optimisation procedure in order to accurately predict the material behaviour, especially after damage initiation. An ABAQUS UMAT subroutine was coded to allow the full life cyclic softening behaviour of a power plant component to be accurately predicted in a finite element calculation. The multiaxial capability of the coding is validated against notched bar test data.

Citation

Lu, J., Sun, W., Becker, A. A., & Saad, A. A. (2015). Simulation of the fatigue behaviour of a power plant steel with a damage variable. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 100, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2015.06.019

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 29, 2015
Online Publication Date Jul 8, 2015
Publication Date Sep 1, 2015
Deposit Date Jul 22, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
Print ISSN 0020-7403
Electronic ISSN 0020-7403
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 100
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2015.06.019
Keywords Cyclic plasticity; Chaboche visco-plasticity model; Continuum damage mechanics; UMAT subroutine
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/758036
Publisher URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020740315002301

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