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Creep deformation properties of creep strength enhanced ferritic steels were investigated. Good linear relationships between creep strain vs. time and creep rate vs. time were observed within a transient stage in a double logarithmic plot. It was appropriately expressed by a power law rather than exponential law, logarithmic law and Blackburn’s equation. With decrease in stress, a magnitude of creep strain at the onset of accelerating creep stage decreased from about 2% in the short-term to less than 1% in the long-term. Life fraction of the time to specific strain of 1% creep strain and 1% total strain, to time to rupture tended to increase with decrease in stress. A time to 1% total strain, that is a parameter for design of high temperature components, was observed in the transient creep stage in the short-term regime, however, it shifted to the accelerating creep stage in the long-term regime. Difference in stress dependence of the minimum creep rate was observed in the high- and low-stress regimes with a boundary condition of 50% of 0.2% offset yield stress. Stress dependence of the minimum creep rate in the high stress regime was equivalent to a strain rate dependence of flow stress observed in tensile test, and a magnitude of stress exponent, n, in the high stress regime decreased with increase in temperature from 20 at 550°C to 10 at 700°C. On the other hand, n value in the low stress regime was about 5, and creep deformation in the low stress regime was considered to be controlled by dislocation climb.
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Kimura, K., Sawada, K. & Kushima, H. Creep deformation properties of creep strength enhanced ferritic steels. Trans Indian Inst Met 63, 123–129 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12666-010-0017-x
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