Fatigue–creep interaction based on continuum damage mechanics for AISI H13 hot work tool steel at elevated temperatures
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Chen, Hai-sheng; Wang, Yong-qin; Du, Wei-qi; Wu, Liang; Luo, Yuan-xin
- Source
- Journal of Iron and Steel Research International; May 2018, Vol. 25 Issue: 5 p580-588, 9p
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- ISSN
- 1006706X; 22103988
AISI H13 (4Cr5MoSiV1) is one of the commonly used materials for extrusion tool, and it suffers from fatigue–creep damage during the hot extrusion process. Stress-controlled fatigue and creep–fatigue interaction tests were carried out at 500 °C to investigate its damage evolution. The accumulated plastic strain was selected to define the damage variable due to its clear physical meaning. A new fatigue–creep interaction damage model was proposed on the basis of continuum damage mechanics. A new equivalent impulse density for fatigue–creep tests was proposed to incorporate the holding time effect by transforming creep impulse density into fatigue impulse density. The experimental results indicated that the damage model is able to describe the damage evolution under these working conditions.