TY - JOUR A1 - Jürgens, Maria A1 - Olbricht, Jürgen A1 - Fedelich, Bernard A1 - Skrotzki, Birgit T1 - Low Cycle Fatigue and Relaxation Performance of Ferritic–Martensitic Grade P92 Steel JF - Metals N2 - Due to their excellent creep resistance and good oxidation resistance, 9–12% Cr ferritic–martensitic stainless steels are widely used as high temperature construction materials in power plants. However, the mutual combination of different loadings (e.g., creep and fatigue), due to a “flexible” operation of power plants, may seriously reduce the lifetimes of the respective components. In the present study, low cycle fatigue (LCF) and relaxation fatigue (RF) tests performed on grade P92 helped to understand the behavior of ferritic–martensitic steels under a combined loading. The softening and lifetime behavior strongly depend on the temperature and total strain range. Especially at small strain amplitudes, the lifetime is seriously reduced when adding a hold time which indicates the importance of considering technically relevant small strains. KW - Ferritic–martensitic steel KW - P92 KW - Low cycle fatigue KW - Relaxation fatigue KW - Cyclic softening PY - 2019 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-473905 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/met9010099 VL - 9 IS - 1 SP - 99, 1 EP - 25 PB - MDPI AN - OPUS4-47390 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Agudo Jácome, Leonardo A1 - Nolze, Gert A1 - Roohbakhshan, Farshad A1 - Fedelich, Bernard A1 - Olbricht, Jürgen A1 - Skrotzki, Birgit T1 - Cyclic operation performance of 9-12% Cr ferritic-martensitic steels part 2: Microstructural evolution during cyclic loading and its representation in a physically-based micromechanical model T2 - Fit for Future - Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, Materials and Lifetime - Proceedings of the 45th MPA-Seminar N2 - The current competitive situation on electricity markets forces conventional power plants into cyclic operation regimes with frequent load shifts and starts/shutdowns. In the present work, the cyclic mechanical behavior of ferritic-martensitic 9-12 % Cr steels under isothermal and thermomechanical loading was investigated for the example of grade P92 material. A continuous softening was observed under all loading conditions. The introduction of hold periods to the applied cycles reduced material lifetime, with most prominent effects at technologically relevant small strain levels. The microstructural characterization reveals a coarsening of the original “martensitic” lath-type microstructure to a structure with polygonal subgrains and reduced dislocation density. The microstructural data forms the input for a physically-based modelling approach. T2 - 45. MPA-Seminar CY - Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany DA - 01.10.2019 KW - Tempered Martensite Ferritic Steels KW - P92 KW - TEM KW - EBSD KW - Micromechanical model PY - 2019 SP - 80 EP - 85 PB - MPA (Materialprüfungsanstalt Universität Stuttgart) CY - Stuttgart AN - OPUS4-50052 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Jürgens, Maria A1 - Sonntag, Nadja A1 - Olbricht, Jürgen A1 - Skrotzki, Birgit T1 - Cyclic operation performance of 9-12% Cr ferritic-martensitic steels part 1: Cyclic mechanical behavior under fatigue and creep-fatigue loading T2 - Fit for Future - Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, Materials and Lifetime - Proceedings of the 45th MPA-Seminar N2 - The current competitive situation on electricity markets forces power plants into cyclic operation regimes with frequent load shifts and starts/shutdowns. In the present work, the cyclic mechanical behavior of ferritic-martensitic 9-12 % Cr steels under isothermal and thermomechanical loading was investigated for the example of grade P92 material. A continuous softening was observed under all loading conditions. The introduction of hold periods to the applied cycles reduced material lifetime, with most prominent effects at technologically relevant small strain levels. The microstructural characterization reveals a coarsening of the original “martensitic” lath-type microstructure to a structure with polygonal subgrains and reduced dislocation density. The microstructural data forms the input for a physically-based modelling approach, both of which are presented in “Part 2: Microstructural Evolution during Cyclic Loading and its Representation in a Physically-based Micromechanical Model“. T2 - 45. MPA-Seminar CY - Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany DA - 01.10.2019 KW - Tempered Martensite Ferritic Steels KW - P92 KW - Low Cycle Fatigue KW - Thermo-Mechanical Fatigue KW - Creep-Fatigue PY - 2019 SP - 75 EP - 79 PB - MPA (Materialprüfungsanstalt Universität Stuttgart) CY - Stuttgart AN - OPUS4-50051 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Olbricht, Jürgen A1 - Sonntag, Nadja A1 - Nolze, Gert A1 - Agudo Jácome, Leonardo A1 - Roohbakhshan, Farshad A1 - Fedelich, Bernard A1 - Skrotzki, Birgit A1 - Jürgens, Maria T1 - Cyclic mechanical performance and microstructure evolution of P92 under LCF and TMF conditions N2 - 9-12% Cr ferritic-martensitic stainless steels are widely used as high temperature construction materials in fossil fueled power plants due to their excellent creep and oxidation resistance, but changes in electricity markets during the last two decades have considerably changed the typical working conditions of these facilities. The growing contribution of renewable energy sources in power generation forces most of these plants into flexible operation with frequent load shifts or shutdowns. These cyclic operation profiles constitute a major lifetime issue, raising the question which fundamental processes govern the reaction of ferritic-martensitic steels to cyclic load and temperature variations. The present contribution reports on current findings obtained in a multidisciplinary project funded by German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) which combines cyclic mechanical and cyclic oxidation testing of different 9-12% Cr grades with detailed microstructural analyses and related micromechanical modeling. In this contribution, an overview will be given on the results obtained in the mechanical testing programme of the project. Mechanical analyses were carried out on P91 and (mainly) P92 steel grades, particularly looking at softening phenomena and lifetimes obtained in isothermal cyclic loading (low cycle fatigue, LCF), non-isothermal cyclic loading (thermo-mechanical fatigue, TMF), and service-like combinations of fatigue and creep/relaxation periods. For this purpose, cylindrical specimens were extracted from thick-walled steam pipes, orthogonal to the pipe axis, and subjected to strain controlled cyclic loading (± 0.2 to ±0.5 % mechanical strain). Temperature intervals of TMF tests were chosen as either 300-620°C or 500-620°C, resembling so-called warm or hot start conditions of a power plant. The test results will be presented and discussed with a focus on the impact of hold periods during testing (combined creep/relaxation-fatigue conditions) on mechanical softening, lifetime and formation of cracks. The findings will be complemented by results on the modification of the hierarchical ferritic-martensitic microstructure under different loading scenarios. T2 - 4th International Workshop on Thermo-Mechanical Fatigue 2019 CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 13.11.2019 KW - Power plant KW - Tempered martensite ferritic steels KW - Thermo-Mechanical Fatigue KW - Microstructure modification KW - EBSD PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-50053 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -