The last few decades have witnessed an increasing emphasis on the development of strain-based ap- proach for predicting the creep life or damage of components operating at elevated temperatures. Creep ductility, as a ...The last few decades have witnessed an increasing emphasis on the development of strain-based ap- proach for predicting the creep life or damage of components operating at elevated temperatures. Creep ductility, as a key parameter in this approach, may vary with a number of factors including strain rate, state of stress, operating temperature, material microstructure, etc. The present paper, however, is focused on reviewing the state-of-the-art understanding of the effects of stress level and stress state on the creep ductility. Mechanisms involving the void growth and coalescence are presented to describe the role of stress level in the variation of uniaxial creep ductility. The prediction capacity of existing empirical duc- tility models is also assessed in light of uniaxial test data. On the other hand, a vast body of multiaxial creep test data, collected from open literature, is utilized to examine the influence of the state of stress on the creep ductility. Then, a variety of multiaxial ductility factor models are introduced and evaluated with the available experimental data. Finally, a brief discussion on the dependence of creep ductility on the stress triaxiality and Lode parameter, predicted by numerical methods, is provided.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11472105 and 51505149)the "111 project"The first author wishes to thank the financial support provided by Shanghai Sailing Program (Grant No. 15YF1402900)
文摘The last few decades have witnessed an increasing emphasis on the development of strain-based ap- proach for predicting the creep life or damage of components operating at elevated temperatures. Creep ductility, as a key parameter in this approach, may vary with a number of factors including strain rate, state of stress, operating temperature, material microstructure, etc. The present paper, however, is focused on reviewing the state-of-the-art understanding of the effects of stress level and stress state on the creep ductility. Mechanisms involving the void growth and coalescence are presented to describe the role of stress level in the variation of uniaxial creep ductility. The prediction capacity of existing empirical duc- tility models is also assessed in light of uniaxial test data. On the other hand, a vast body of multiaxial creep test data, collected from open literature, is utilized to examine the influence of the state of stress on the creep ductility. Then, a variety of multiaxial ductility factor models are introduced and evaluated with the available experimental data. Finally, a brief discussion on the dependence of creep ductility on the stress triaxiality and Lode parameter, predicted by numerical methods, is provided.
