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Experimental and Numerical Analysis of the Uniaxial Tensile Properties of F321 Austenitic Stainless Steel at Different Temperatures

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F321 austenitic stainless steel, well known for its excellent corrosion and oxidation resistance, is widely used as a structural component in the pipelines and pumps of light water reactors (LWRs) and generation IV (GenIV) reactors. However, the material failure arising from the high-temperature softening of the 300 series austenitic stainless steels has recently received significant attention. In this study, we conducted uniaxial tensile tests on F321 stainless steel at different temperatures. Furthermore, we developed a face-centered cubic (FCC) crystal plasticity method emphasizing the temperature factor of the evolution of dislocations inferred by the physical mechanisms at the microscopic level to simulate the polycrystalline mechanical response and model the high-temperature softening phenomenon of F321 austenitic stainless steel. Subsequently, this model was implemented using the ABAQUS finite-element platform. On this basis, the crystal plastic finite-element method (CPFEM) of F321 stainless steel was established. The calculated results were in good agreement with the experimental results, which validated the effectiveness of this numerical method.

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The support of National Key R&D Plan of China under Grant No. 2020YFB1901600, National Science and Technology Major Project of China under Grant No. 2017ZX06902012 and No. 2017ZX06901024 are gratefully acknowledged.

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Liu, M., Nie, J. & Lin, P. Experimental and Numerical Analysis of the Uniaxial Tensile Properties of F321 Austenitic Stainless Steel at Different Temperatures. Acta Mech. Solida Sin. 35, 409–420 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10338-021-00304-1

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