Abstract:Simulation plays a critical role in the development and evaluation of critical components that are regularly subjected to mechanical loads at elevated temperatures. The cost, applicability, and accuracy of either numerical or analytical simulations are largely dependent on the material model chosen for the application. A noninteraction (NI) model derived from individual elastic, plastic, and creep components is developed in this study. The candidate material under examination for this application is 2.25Cr–1Mo… Show more
“…There are two approaches to simulate time-dependent material behavior in the Finite Element (FE) analysis. One is to consider the effects of plastic deformation and creep behavior independently by using independent strain components (εitalicplastic,εitaliccreep) (Bouchenot et al., 2016, 2018; Cao et al., 2018). Although this method can find material parameters easily from experiments, it has a limitation in accurately reflecting the interaction between creep and plastic deformation under complex loading conditions (Chaboche, 2008; Henshall and Miller, 1990).…”
This paper proposes an integrated unified elasto-viscoplastic fatigue and creep damage model with modified hardening equations to simulate the elasto-viscoplasticity, primary-secondary and tertiary creep, relaxation, cyclic softening, temperature-dependency, and creep-fatigue interaction (CFI) damage. For this purpose, we integrate the creep damage and fatigue damage model into the viscoplasticity-damage model to predict tertiary creep and cyclic softening behavior caused by creep and fatigue damage modes. Interaction effects between each damage mode are considered by the creep-fatigue interaction (CFI) damage scheme. This paper also introduces a genetic algorithm-based integrated characterization method that can effectively optimize material input parameters of the unified elasto-viscoplastic-damage material model with limited experimental data. Implicit Euler's backward iteration scheme is adopted to improve the convergence and accuracy of solutions. The proposed material model is implemented in UMAT for finite element (FE) analysis of high-temperature structures under cyclic-dwell loading. Experimental data of tensile, dwell, creep, and cyclic loading at various temperatures are used to verify the model. Finally, full-scale turbine blade FE analysis is performed under anisothermal conditions. The proposed material modeling framework can also be utilized for other high-temperature structures, such as power plants, leading-edge nose cones, etc.
“…There are two approaches to simulate time-dependent material behavior in the Finite Element (FE) analysis. One is to consider the effects of plastic deformation and creep behavior independently by using independent strain components (εitalicplastic,εitaliccreep) (Bouchenot et al., 2016, 2018; Cao et al., 2018). Although this method can find material parameters easily from experiments, it has a limitation in accurately reflecting the interaction between creep and plastic deformation under complex loading conditions (Chaboche, 2008; Henshall and Miller, 1990).…”
This paper proposes an integrated unified elasto-viscoplastic fatigue and creep damage model with modified hardening equations to simulate the elasto-viscoplasticity, primary-secondary and tertiary creep, relaxation, cyclic softening, temperature-dependency, and creep-fatigue interaction (CFI) damage. For this purpose, we integrate the creep damage and fatigue damage model into the viscoplasticity-damage model to predict tertiary creep and cyclic softening behavior caused by creep and fatigue damage modes. Interaction effects between each damage mode are considered by the creep-fatigue interaction (CFI) damage scheme. This paper also introduces a genetic algorithm-based integrated characterization method that can effectively optimize material input parameters of the unified elasto-viscoplastic-damage material model with limited experimental data. Implicit Euler's backward iteration scheme is adopted to improve the convergence and accuracy of solutions. The proposed material model is implemented in UMAT for finite element (FE) analysis of high-temperature structures under cyclic-dwell loading. Experimental data of tensile, dwell, creep, and cyclic loading at various temperatures are used to verify the model. Finally, full-scale turbine blade FE analysis is performed under anisothermal conditions. The proposed material modeling framework can also be utilized for other high-temperature structures, such as power plants, leading-edge nose cones, etc.
Next-generation, reusable hypersonic aircraft will be subjected to extreme environments that produce complex fatigue loads at high temperatures, reminiscent of the life-limiting thermal and mechanical loads present in large gas-powered land-based turbines. In both of these applications, there is a need for greater fidelity in the constitutive material models employed in finite element simulations, resulting in the transition to nonlinear formulations. One such formulation is the nonlinear kinematic hardening (NLKH) model, which is a plasticity model quickly gaining popularity in the industrial sector, and can be found in commercial finite element software. The drawback to using models like the NLKH model is that the parameterization can be difficult, and the numerical fitting techniques commonly used for such tasks may result in constants devoid of physical meaning. This study presents a simple method to derive these constants by extrapolation of a reduced-order model, where the cyclic Ramberg–Osgood (CRO) formulation is used to obtain the parameters of a three-part NLKH model. This fitting scheme is used with basic literature-based data to fully characterize a constitutive model for Inconel 617 at temperatures between 20 °C and 1000 °C. This model is validated for low-cycle fatigue (LCF), creep-fatigue (CF), thermomechanical fatigue (TMF), and combined thermomechanical-high-cycle fatigue (HCF) using a mix of literature data and original data produced at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
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