Creep Property of TMCP High-Strength Steel Q690CFD at Elevated Temperatures
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 32, Issue 2
Abstract
Creep effect becomes an important consideration in the design of high-strength steel structures subjected to a soaking period at elevated temperatures such as in stress-relieving post-weld heat treatment (PWHT) circumstances. However, very limited experimental data can be found for the creep property of the thermal-mechanical control process (TMCP) of high-strength steel (HSS) at different elevated temperatures and stress levels, which seriously restricts the numerical modelling for the creep effect and analysis of the mechanical behavior of TMCP HSS structural elements. To this end, the physical mechanisms underlying the creep in TMCP HSS were firstly discussed in this paper, after which the mechanical properties of Q690CFD at ambient and elevated temperatures were investigated. An experimental investigation on the creep properties of Q690CFD at elevated temperatures was organized in the current study. The effect of environmental temperature and stress level on the creep behavior of TMCP HSS was also studied. A constitutive model was proposed to describe the creep behavior of TMCP HSS under elevated temperatures. Finally, validation of the constitutive model shows good agreement with the test results.
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Acknowledgments
This research is supported by the Scientific Research Start-up Funding of Guangzhou University and the Natural Science Foundation Funding of Guangdong Province (No. 2018A030310070). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed in this paper are those solely of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of Guangzhou University.
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Volume 32 • Issue 2 • February 2020
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Received: Apr 24, 2019
Accepted: Jul 25, 2019
Published online: Dec 11, 2019
Published in print: Feb 1, 2020
Discussion open until: May 11, 2020
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