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A key problem in fatigue crack growth is the influence of load transients, such as overloads, on crack growth rates. This has been investigated in detail for materials operating near room temperature but is less well understood at high temperatures, where rate dependence becomes important. Here, finite element computations using an elastic-viscoplastic material model and an irreversible cohesive zone formulation are used to assess crack growth following high-temperature overloads. The model predicts that crack growth acceleration occurs in more rate-sensitive materials, while retardation occurs in less rate-sensitive materials. Retardation is associated with higher crack-tip viscoplastic strain following the overloads, which produces compressive residual stresses that disturb the crack-tip fields. Fatigue crack growth experiments were conducted at 800 \(^\circ \)C on Alloy 617, a nickel-base superalloy. The experiments show that a block of 20 overloads causes retardation at low loads and acceleration at high loads. The model predictions show good agreement with the trends in the experiments. The computations and experiments indicate that a transition between acceleration- and retardation-dominated behavior occurs at intermediate rate sensitivities, which are characteristic of many solid solution strengthened alloys.
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This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, under contract No. DE-FE0011796 and by the Office of Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Energy University Program under Award Number DE-NE0000722. The authors gratefully acknowledge Dr. Richard Wright of Idaho National Laboratory for providing the Alloy 617 used in this study and for his useful input and discussions. The authors also gratefully acknowledge Dr. Sam Sham for his input and discussions. J.D.P. also acknowledges support from the Australian Academy of Science through the Australia-Americas PhD Research Internship Program.
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Pribe, J.D., Addison, D.A., Siegmund, T. et al. High-temperature fatigue crack growth under transient overloading: application to Alloy 617. Int J Fract 232, 23–42 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10704-021-00588-x
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