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THE AIR FATIGUE AND CORROSION FATIGUE OF A 13% Cr TURBINE BLADE STEEL
Author(s) -
Congleton J.,
Wilks T. P.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
fatigue and fracture of engineering materials and structures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.887
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1460-2695
pISSN - 8756-758X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1460-2695.1988.tb01165.x
Subject(s) - corrosion fatigue , materials science , fatigue testing , fatigue limit , metallurgy , steam turbine , tension (geology) , corrosion , composite material , engineering , ultimate tensile strength , mechanical engineering
— Reasons for data scatter from fatigue tests on a high strength 13% Cr steel are discussed and data is presented for corrosion fatigue of this steel in a condensing steam environment. Rotating bend tests were performed at 50 and 3 Hz and tension‐tension fatigue tests at 0.016 Hz and R =0.1. Some specimens were periodically inspected to identify sites of fatigue crack initiation. The role of inclusions in initiating fatigue cracks was investigated and it was found that the population of larger inclusions in the steel matched that at fatigue crack initiation sites. Comparison of fatigue lives from polished and abraded specimens indicated that there is little point in producing highly polished surfaces for this steel to try and improve fatigue life unless the inclusion content can be reduced in size and number. Corrosion fatigue data is presented indicating the magnitude of the reduction of fatigue life caused by condensing pure steam and condensing chlorinated steam.