Damage Model Determination for Predicting Creep Rupture Time of 2 1/4Cr–1Mo Steel Weld Joints

Autor: Masahiko Demura, Masaaki Tabuchi, Daisuke Abe, Masayoshi Yamazaki, Keisuke Torigata, Hitoshi Izuno
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS. 62:1013-1022
ISSN: 1347-5320
1345-9678
DOI: 10.2320/matertrans.mt-ma2020004
Popis: In a creep damage analysis for a weld joint (WJ) using a damage model, it is important to select a damage model that properly reflects complex conditions of stress generated in the interface between the base metal and the heat-affected zone (HAZ). For 2 1/4Cr–1Mo steel, we examined what type of scalar stress is appropriate to properly reflects the conditions of stress generated around the HAZ for accurately predicting creep rupture time, in the framework of the time exhaustion rule, which evaluates damage as a function of stress. For a specimen of a round rod WJ through which an HAZ penetrates obliquely, we compared actual tests and finite element method (FEM) analysis, in temperature-stress ranges from 120 to 160 MPa at 823 K, and from 80 to 100 MPa at 873 K. Using FEM calculations, we evaluated the rupture time based on the time exhaustion rule, considering three types of scalar stress: the maximum principal stress, the equivalent stress, and the Huddleston stress. Comparing with the tests, we found that the scalar stress that gives an appropriate rupture time is the Huddleston stress. In this stress, the damage accumulation due to the creep deformation in the base metal (BM)-HAZ interface and the cavity formation due to the hydrostatic pressure are taken into account. Analyses of the stress distribution inside and outside of the HAZ and in the BM-HAZ interface indicated that, for the 2 1/4Cr–1Mo steel, the cavity formation due to the tensile hydrostatic pressure is also important when we evaluate damage. We optimized a parameter b, which regulates the balance in the Huddleston stress, so that the observed results are reproduced with the determination coefficient of R2 = 0.948, and we obtained the value of b as b = 0.34.
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