Abstract

The facture and fatigue behaviour of welded joints made of A516 Gr 60 was analysed, bearing in mind their susceptibility to cracking, especially in the case of components which had been in service for a long time period. With respect to fracture, the fracture toughness was determined for all three zones of a welded joint, the base metal (BM), heat-affected zone (HAZ) and weld metal (WM), by applying a standard procedure to evaluate KIc via based on JIc values (ASTM E1820). With respect to fatigue, the fatigue crack growth rates were determined according to the Paris law by the standard procedure (ASTM E647) to evaluate the behaviour of different welded joint zones under amplitude loading. The results obtained for A516 Gr. 60 structural steel showed why it is widely used in the case of static loads, since the minimum value of fracture toughness (185 MPa√m) provides relatively large critical crack lengths, whereas its behaviour under amplitude loading indicated a need for further improvement in WM and HAZ, since the crack growth rate reached values as high as 4.58 × 10−4 mm/cycle. In addition, risk-based analysis was applied to assess the structural integrity of a pressure vessel, including comparison with the high-strength low-alloy (HSLA) steel NIOVAL 50, proving once again its superior behaviour under static loading.

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