Abstract: Itis understood that grain boundary cavitation is one of the detrimental processes for thedegradation of materials that reduces the creep fatigue life at high temperatures. Anewdamagefunction based on a modelforthecreep fatiguelife prediction in termsof nucleationand growth ofgrain boundarycavitiesisproposed. Thisdamagefunctionisacombination ofthetermsrelated to the cavitational damagein thelife prediction equation and is generallyapplicabletothe materialsin which failureis controlled by the grain boundary cavitationaldamage. Thecreep fatiguedatafrom thepresentandotherinvestigationsareusedtocheckthevalidityofthe proposed function, and itisshown thattheysatisfythereliability of damagefunction. Additionally, using this damage function, one may realize that allthe Coffin Manson plotsatthevariouslevelsoftensileholdtimeandtemperatureunderstrain controlled creep fatiguetestscan be normalizedto makethe mastercurve.

Key words: austeniticstainlesssteel, creep fatigue, grainboundarycavitation , damage function, holdtime