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Fatigue curves for ferritic material at elevated temperature

Fatigue curves for ferritic material at elevated temperature

Fatigue curves for ferritic material at elevated temperature

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I am working on a repair for a Div II heat exchanger and have been searching for some method to demonstrate that a weld repair of a wasted area on a tubesheet does/does not affect the fatigue design.

API 579 provides some methods for evaluating welds subject to fatigue loading, however the design curves provided are restricted for ferritic materials to services below 662F or 350C.  The design temperature of this tubesheet is 480C or 900F.

Does anyone have a source for fatigue curves (for welds) at such temperatures?  

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RE: Fatigue curves for ferritic material at elevated temperature

In the late 1970's there was published high temp fatigue curves for P22 , 314 H, 316 H, 347H, associated with researchon the Clinch River Breeder reactor.  Look in the ASME journals from that period, but I suspect the data is probably for parent metal and not weld metal.

The properties of the weld metal are associated with the specific weld procedure for each tested sample, such as preheat, interpass temp, and PWHT procedures, so it would be very difficult to demonstrate high repeatability unless the welding process is totally mechanized.

There are also newer results published in the online tech  journal OMMI at <www.ommi.co.uk> for P22 and P91

RE: Fatigue curves for ferritic material at elevated temperature

For the P22 fatigue data, see Brinkman et al:"Elevated temperature fatigue behavior of 2 1/4Cr 1 Mo steel", J Press vess tech, trans ASME Nov 1975 pp252-257. This formed the basis of the fatigue curves in the ASME code case N-47.

There are newer fatigue curves in the EU PED, such as in EN 12952-3:2001 annex B. The fatigue curves are meant to be applied to the parent material , while the weld zone may be treated completely differently ( as in BS 5500), where the failure of a weldment uses fracture mechanics at a pre-existing microcrack.

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