A BASIS FOR APPLYING ELASTIC PERFECTLY-PLASTIC DESIGN METHODS TO CYCLIC SOFTENING MATERIALS
Design approaches using elastic perfectly-plastic (EPP) analysis have recently been approved as Code Cases for the Section III, Division 5 design of high-temperature nuclear reactor components made from austenitic stainless steel. These methods bound the ratcheting strain and creep-fatigue damage accumulated over the life of a component with a simplified, elasticperfectly plastic analysis using a special pseudo-yield stress – often not equal to the true material yield stress. The austenitic materials specified in the existing Code cases are cyclic-hardening for all allowable operating temperatures. However, other Section III, Division 5 materials, such as Grade 91 steel, are cyclic softening at expected advanced reactor operating temperatures. This work describes the extension of EPP methods to cyclic softening materials through the use of a postulated saturated material state and softening factors to be applied to the pseudo yield stress. We demonstrate the conservatism of the modified EPP method against a series of inelastic simulations of two bar tests, using a constitutive model that captures work and cyclic softening.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1474440
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference (PVP 2018) - Prague, , Czech Republic - 7/15/2018 4:00:00 AM-7/20/2018 4:00:00 AM
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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