Abstract

For components in concentrating solar thermal plants, the creep mechanism will cause a significant portion of material damage to receivers, storage tanks, turbines and pipework. These components will undergo conditions where loads, temperature, or both load and temperature are not constatnly applied. This creep damage process will not resemble the constant load creep tests used to characterise creep of materials. Therefore, creep tests incorporating a load cycle were undertaken to obtain a better understanding of how high temperature materials respond to these cyclic conditions. These tests showed that when time under load was considered, creep undertaken under load cycling conditions were accelerated relative to constant load conditions. A modified Larson-Miller approach was used to assess this effect and determine an equivalent stress where constant load test data agrees with the cycled test data. This found that cycling the load was equivalent to if the system were under 3 and 7 MPa higher stress, for tests which were loaded for 12 hrs and 6 hrs per 24 hrs respectively. This could be a potential approach to simply and easily consider these load cycling effects for design and life analysis.

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