Effect of specimen orientation on fractography under tension, fatigue and creep fracture in Cr-Mo-V steel turbine rotor
Mori Kaname; Yoshinari Hiromi; Uchiyama Akira
Abstract:In order to clarify the anisotropy of fractography at fracture initiation site, monotonic tension, bending fatigue and tensile creep fracture tests were carried out at room and elevated temperatures, using three oriented specimens extracted from a Cr-Mo-V steel turbine rotor. In the case of monotonic tension, although the effects of temperature on tensile properties and fractography was prominent, the effects of specimen orientation on those were quite small at room and 839 K temperatures. The fatigue limit of L-R oriented specimen was about 380 Mpa, and 25% higher than those of C-R and C-L oriented specimens. The scattering of fatigue life of C-R oriented specimen at the near fatigue limit stress condition was clearly larger than those of the other oriented specimens. Under bending fatigue, markedly different fractographic patterns were observed at the crack initiation site for all the three oriented specimens. It was found that the orientation of two kinds of inclusions, MnS and Al2O3 particles at the fatigue crack initiation site, influences the fractographic mode strongly. The creep result of L oriented specimen showed the longest life, as compared with those of the other oriented specimens, under nearly the same stress condition. The effect of specimen orientation on the fractographic patterns of creep was quite small. Key Words:fractography, anisotropy, tension, fatigue, fracture, strength, rotor, low alloy steel