Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters) ›› 2017, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (9): 822-828.DOI: 10.1007/s40195-017-0588-1

Special Issue: 2017年钢铁材料专辑

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Ratcheting Behavior of SA508-3 Steel at Elevated Temperature:Experimental Observation and Simulation

Jun Tian1, Yu Yang1, Zhang Li Ping1, Shao Xue Jiao1, Juan Du1, Kan Qian Hua2   

  1. 1 Science and Technology on Reactor System Design Technology Laboratory, Nuclear Power Institute of China, Chengdu 610213, China
    2 Applied Mechanics and Structure Safety Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, School of Mechanics and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China
  • Online:2017-09-30 Published:2017-10-26
  • About author:1 The authors contributed equally to this work.

Abstract:

A series of monotonic uniaxial tensile tests, strain-controlled and stress-controlled cyclic tests of SA508-3 steel were conducted from 25 to 350 °C. Results showed that the steel exhibited temperature-dependent cyclic softening characteristic and obvious ratcheting behavior, and dynamic strain aging was observed in the range of 250-350 °C. Based on experimental observations, a temperature-dependent cyclic plastic constitutive model was proposed by introducing the nonlinear cyclic softening and kinematic hardening rules, and the dynamic strain aging was also considered into the constitutive model. Comparisons between experiments and simulations were carried out to validate the proposed model at elevated temperature.

Key words: Ratcheting, Constitutive model, Dynamic strain aging, Cyclic loading, Elevated temperature