Abstract
As a part of the efforts for developing a reliable assessment procedure for crack growth in high temperature components, crack growth tests at various loading conditions were performed on Grade 91 steel. 1T compact tension specimens of 20 mm thickness were kept under constant tensile load at 600°C, but periodically unloaded or reversely loaded to compressive side to observe these effects on deformation behaviour as well as crack growth behaviour. It was found that periodical reversed loading accelerates crack growth due to re-acceleration of inelastic deformation during load holding, but its extent was not as large as predicted by creep J-integral in a conventional way. The predictions were improved by introducing an additional parameter to take account of creep damage recovery which was caused by the excursion to compressive load.
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