Type IV failure in weldment of creep resistant ferritic alloys: I. Micromechanical origin of creep strain localization in the heat affected zone

Wei Zhang, Xue Wang, Yiyu Wang, Xinghua Yu, Yanfei Gao*, Zhili Feng

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Creep strength enhanced ferritic (CSEF) steels containing 9-12wt% chromium have been extensively used in fossil-fuel-fired power plants. Despite their excellent creep resistance at high temperatures, premature failures (especially Type IV cracking) are often found in the fine-grained heat affected zone (HAZ) or intercritical HAZ of the welded components. This failure mode is preceded by the strain localization in the HAZ, as measured by the Digital Image Correlation (DIC) technique. The present work aims to develop a finite-element based computational method to determine the micromechanical and microstructural origin of the strain localization phenomenon. We construct a two-dimensional digital microstructure based on the actual microstructure of ferritic steel weldments by using the Voronoi-tessellation method, to account for the effects of its large grain-size gradients. A mechanism-based finite element method is developed for modeling the high temperature deformation resulting from a synergy of thermally activated dislocation movements, diffusional flow and grain boundary sliding. The numerical results agree well with the strain measurements by our DIC technique, particularly revealing the effect of pre-welding tempering on the evolution of strain localization in HAZ of creep resistant steel weldments. It is found that the diffusional creep with dependence on grain sizes, dislocation creep with dependence on material strength, and more importantly, grain boundary sliding, contribute synergistically to the creep strain accumulation in the HAZ, and their relative degree of significance is quantified. The creep rupture life will be investigated in the companion paper.

源语言英语
文章编号103774
期刊Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
134
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出版状态已出版 - 1月 2020
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Zhang, W., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Yu, X., Gao, Y., & Feng, Z. (2020). Type IV failure in weldment of creep resistant ferritic alloys: I. Micromechanical origin of creep strain localization in the heat affected zone. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 134, 文章 103774. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2019.103774