Abstract
The room temperature creep behavior of X80 pipeline steel has attracted increasing attention because it is considered to be the main cause of time-delayed failure in pipeline steel. The crack tip opening displacement (CTOD) is a general criterion to characterize the time-delayed failure and assessment safety of pipeline steel. However, there are few methods to demonstrate crack behavior of the pipeline steel caused by room temperature creep. Based on the traditional CTOD theoretical model, a modified creep crack tip opening displacement (CCTOD) theoretical model is presented to calculate the CCTOD from the crack mouth opening displacement (CMOD). The room temperature creep experiment with a single edge notched beam subjected to three-point bending creep load for 36 h at room temperature is performed to know more about the CCTOD of X80 pipeline steel. Based on a power-law time delayed relationship among creep strain, stress and time fitted from experiment results of tensile creep tests, the finite element model is also established to evaluation the CCTOD of pipeline steel at room temperature. It is found that there is about 10% CTOD increment caused by room temperature creep added to that of the traditional elastic and plastic CTOD which indicates that room temperature creep is also further blunted the crack tip of X80 pipeline steel. Meanwhile, The results will provide an approach for failure evaluation and an integrity guideline for X80 pipeline steel.
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