Mechanical Behaviour of Materials during Creep with Changing Loads

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A component in service experiences stress conditions that change continuously with time. Since service conditions are usually difficult and expensive to reproduce in laboratory, the creep behaviour of alloys in service has to be extrapolated from a limited number of creep tests at constant loads and temperatures. Empirical rules have been proposed to forecast the effects of variable load and temperature both on the time to rupture, as the life fraction rule (LFR), and on the accumulation of creep strain with time, as the strain hardening rule (SHR). Two directionally solidified (DS) nickel based superalloys have been investigated with creep tests at constant and variable loads and constant temperature. Nickel based superalloys, for the typical stresses experienced in service, are often characterised by a small negligible primary, a minimum of strain rate with no secondary state, and a dominant accelerating creep caused by dislocation multiplication. The damage mechanisms causing the final rupture appear only in the very last percentage of life. In the present work, simulation results are reported to show that the physical-sounded model used to describe the accelerating creep due to dislocation multiplication can be employed to better predict the times to rupture and the creep curves of the two DS nickel based super-alloys with step-like variable stress than the empirical LF and SH rules.

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