ＳＵＳ３０４の破損機構を考慮した新概念延性消耗則

Abstract

For long-term creep-fatigue of Type 304SS, intergranular failure is dominant when significant life reduction occurs. This phenomenon has its origin in grain boundary sliding as same as that in cavity type creep failure. Accordingly a simplified procedure to estimate intergranular damages caused by grain boundary sliding is presented in connection with the secondary creep.In the conventional ductility exhaustion method, fracture ductility includes plastic strain, and damage estimation is based on primary creep recoverable during strain cycling. Therefore, the accumulated creep strain becomes a very large value, and is quite different from grain boundary sliding strain. As a new concept on ductility exhaustion, the products of secondary creep rate and time to rupture (ε2tR) is applied to fracture ductility, and grain boundary sliding is estimated using the accumulated secondary creep strain. It was shown that the time fraction rule and the conventional ductility exhaustion method can be derived analytically from the new concept.Furthermore an advanced method on cyclic stress relaxation was examined. If cyclic plastic strain hardening is softened thermally during strain hold, softening of the primary and secondary creep can occur. And the unrecoverable accumulated primary creep strain causes hardening of the primary creep. The reduction of deformation resistance to the secondary creep accelerates the grain boundary sliding rate, and increases creep damage.The new concept ductility exhaustion method based on the above consideration gave good life prediction for the intergranular failure mode.