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Material modelling and lifetime prediction of Ni-base gas turbine blades under TMF conditions
(2014)
Under cyclic thermomechanical loading conditions, various damage mechanisms such as strain accumulation, creep cavitation, ageing, fatigue surface cracking etc. may take place in the material of a gas turbine blade. Depending on the loading conditions, all these effects can contribute to reduce the lifetime of the component. Subject of the present work is the development of a material model to describe the mechanical effects mentioned above, as well as the development of a lifetime model able to discriminate the different damage mechanisms.
Under cyclic thermomechanical loading conditions, various effects such as strain accumulation, creep damage, ageing, fatigue etc. may occur in the material of a gas turbine blade. Depending on the loading conditions, all these effects contribute to reduce the lifetime of the component. Subject of the present work is the development of a lifetime model able to discriminate between the different damage mechanisms, as well as the development of a material model to describe the mentioned effects and thus providing the input data for lifetime prediction.
Micromechanical investigations and modelling of a copper-antimony-alloy under creep conditions
(2014)
In many practical applications, creep damage is the limiting factor of a components lifetime. A micromechanical model of creep induced grain boundary damage is proposed, which allows for the simulation of creep damage in a polycrystal within the framework of finite element analysis. The model considers grain boundary cavitation and sliding according to a micromechanically motivated cohesive zone model while creep deformation of the grains is described following the slip system theory. The model can be applied to idealised polycrystalline structures, such as a Voronoi tessellation or, like demonstrated here, to real grain structures of miniature creep specimens. Creep tests with pure Cu single crystals and with a coarse-grained polycrystalline Cu-1 wt.% Sb alloy at 823 K have been performed and used to calibrate the polycrystal model. The grain structure of the polycrystalline CuSb specimens has been revealed by the EBSD method. Extensive grain boundary sliding and cavitation has been observed in the crept specimens. Grain boundary sliding has been found to promote wedge-type damage at grain boundary triple junctions and to contribute significantly to the total creep strain. Furthermore, the assumed stress sensitivity of the models grain boundary cavity nucleation rate strongly influences the development of wedge-type damage.