A novel fatigue-oxidation-creep life prediction method under non-proportional loading

In this paper, a new life assessment framework is proposed based on the elastic-viscoplastic modeling and the damage behavior for the structural component under multiaxial nonproportional loading at high temperature. The viscoplastic constitutive model with the ability to capture the non-proportional hardening effect is used to obtain the stress-strain fields, in which a new method based on the rotation of strain axis is proposed to evaluate the notch rotation factor. The damage model, which can comprehensively capture the multiaxial fatigue-oxidationcreep behaviors, is used to assess the failure life. In addition, the proposed framework is evaluated by the life results under proportional and non-proportional fatigue loadings at 650 degrees C, and the errors are found to be within a factor of 2.

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A new life assessment framework is proposed based on elastic-viscoplastic modeling and damage behavior for structural components under multiaxial nonproportional loading at high temperature. The framework utilizes a viscoplastic constitutive model to capture non-proportional hardening effect and a damage model to assess failure life comprehensively. Evaluation of the framework at 650 degrees C shows errors within a factor of 2 under proportional and non-proportional fatigue loadings.