Stress Relaxation Continuum Damage Constitutive Equations for Relaxation Performance Prediction

Abstract:

Stress relaxation constitutive equations based on Continuum Damage Mechanics, Kachanov-Robatnov creep model, and stress relaxation equation has been developed by analyzing stress relaxation damage mechanisms and considering the relationship that stress relaxation is creep at various stresses. And, the constitutive differential equations were integrated to predict stress relaxation performance by using numerical analysis technique. In order to validate the approach, the predicted results are compared to the experimental results of uni-axial isothermal stress relaxation tests conducted on 1Cr10NiMoW2VNbN steel with the same temperature of creep tests. Good agreement between results of relaxation tests and the predicted results indicates that the developed constitutive models can be used in the relaxation behavior evaluation of high temperature materials.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 455-456)
• Pages: 1434-1437
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.455-456.1434
• Online since: January 2012
• Authors: Jin Quan Guo, Wei Zhang, Xiao Hong Sun
• Keywords: Behavior Prediction, Creep Damage, Relaxation Constitutive Equations, Stress Relaxation Mechanisms

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