Determination of multiaxial stress rupture criteria for creeping materials: A critical analysis of different approaches

K Zhang, JP Tan, W Sun, K Nikbin, ST Tu - Journal of Materials Science & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Materials in engineering applications are rarely uniaxially-loaded. In reality, failures under
multiaxial loading has been widely observed in engineering structures. The life prediction of …

Effects of stress level and stress state on creep ductility: evaluation of different models

JF Wen, ST Tu, FZ Xuan, XW Zhang, XL Gao - Journal of materials science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The last few decades have witnessed an increasing emphasis on the development of strain-
based approach for predicting the creep life or damage of components operating at elevated …

[HTML][HTML] Requirements for and challenges in developing improved creep ductility-based constitutive models for tempered martensitic CSEF steels

R Ragab, J Parker, M Li, T Liu, A Morris… - journal of materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Creep fracture behaviour of tempered martensitic steels is generally governed by the
process of cavity nucleation, growth and coalescence into microcracks. Therefore, creep …

[HTML][HTML] Study of the creep cavitation behavior of P91 steel under different stress states and its effect on high-temperature creep properties

K Han, H Ding, X Fan, W Li, Y Lv, Y Feng - Journal of Materials Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, circumferential U-notches of different depths were machined on a plain
cylindrical creep specimen to simulate different stress states during steam pipe operation …

[HTML][HTML] Unravelling the effects of ratcheting and constraint on the cyclic behaviour of a martensitic steel under elevated temperature

R Ragab, Y Pang, T Liu, N Neate, M Li, W Sun - Mechanics of Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
This work examines important aspects of the high-temperature cyclic visco-plasticity
behaviour, namely the ratcheting (cyclic creep) and constraint effects, under low-cycle …

Remaining lifetime assessment of 141,000-hour service-aged forge 91-pipe 91 steel header welds with novel in-situ digital image correlation

Y Wang, W Zhang, Y Wang, J Siefert, A Bridges… - Materials & Design, 2022 - Elsevier
Condition assessment of welded steam components is a crucial activity for safe power plant
operations. In this work, remaining lifetime of a 141,000-hour service-aged large bore girth …

Representative rupture stress-based parameter for characterizing the intensity of creep fracture constraint effect on creep crack growth rate

Z Kun, T Jian-Ping, W Jian-Feng, W Guo-Zhen… - Engineering Fracture …, 2024 - Elsevier
The introduction of creep fracture constraint parameter offers the possibility of accurately
obtaining the CCG rate for specimens/structures subject to different constraint levels through …

Creep crack growth behavior analysis of the 9Cr-1Mo steel by a modified creep-damage model

YC Zhang, W Jiang, ST Tu, XC Zhang, YJ Ye - Materials Science and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Creep crack growth behavior of the 9Cr-1Mo steel under multi-axial stress state at 600° C
was investigated by a modified creep damage model. Firstly, a modified creep damage …

Effects of creep ductility and notch constraint on creep fracture behavior in notched bar specimens

X Xu, GZ Wang, FZ Xuan, ST Tu - Materials at High Temperatures, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The creep rupture life of U-type notched specimens and smooth specimens has been
calculated based on the ductility exhaustion damage model using stress-dependent creep …

[HTML][HTML] Creep crack growth modelling of Grade 91 vessel weldments using a modified ductility based damage model

R Ragab, J Parker, M Li, T Liu, W Sun - European Journal of Mechanics-A …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper reports creep crack growth modelling of Grade 91 vessel weldments at high
temperature using a modified ductility-based continuum damage mechanics (CDM) model …