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Short Crack Growth in Materials for High Temperature Applications
Mazánová, Veronika ; Obrtlík, Karel (oponent) ; Krupp, habil Ulrich (oponent) ; Polák, Jaroslav (vedoucí práce)
: Advanced highly-alloyed austenitic stainless steel Sanicro 25 based on Fe-Ni-Cr matrix was studied under the conditions of low cycle fatigue at room temperature and at elevated temperature of 700 °C. Several state-of-the-art experimental techniques were used to investigate the mutual effects of alloy composition, microstructural changes and deformation mechanisms, which determine the overall damage resistance of the material. The main effort has been focused on the fatigue crack initiation and the short crack growth, two stages which play an essential role in the resulting fatigue life of the material in the service. • The internal deformation mechanisms were correlated with the evolution of the surface relief in the form of persistent slip markings. It was found that the high planar character of the dislocation slip causes the high cyclic plastic strain localization into the persistent slip bands and thus the early Stage I crack nucleation associated with the presence of the persistent slip markings in all studied samples. The twin boundary cracking was found to be related to the presence of the persistent slip marking along the surface trace of twin boundary as well. • The intergranular crack initiation was observed only rarely at high strain amplitude loading. It was found to be related to the presence of the persistent slip markings at the grain boundary. Owing to high number of local incompatibilities at the grain boundary caused by the shape of the persistent slip markings the grain boundary cracks under the external tensile loading. • The crack growth mechanisms of natural short cracks were studied on the samples subjected both to low and high strain amplitude cycling. The role of microstructure was analysed using experimental techniques and discussed. • The crack growth rates of the longest cracks were measured on the samples with a shallow notch. The results were analysed using the fracture mechanics approaches based both on amplitude of KI and of J-integral as well as on the plastic strain amplitude. All approaches were discussed in the relation to the Manson-Coffin fatigue life curve. The simple power law of the short crack growth based on the plastic strain amplitude shows very good correlation to the fatigue life law. • In the case of cycling at elevated temperature the role of oxidation was studied. The brittle cracking of the oxidized grain boundaries was found to play a major role in the early stages of crack nucleation. Later the crack growth path changes to be preferentially transgranular. The crack growth path is very similar to that studied in room temperature cycling.
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MICROSTRUCTURAL INVESTIGATION AND MECHANICAL TESTING OF AN ULTRAFINE-GRAINED AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL
Chlupová, Alice ; Man, Jiří ; Polák, Jaroslav ; Karjalainen, L. P.
Special thermomechanical treatment based on high degree deformation followed by reversion annealing was applied to 301LN austenitic stainless steel to achieve ultrafine-grained (UFG) structure with considerably enhanced mechanical properties. Two different conditions of the thermomechanical treatment were adopted and resulting microstructures with different grain sizes were characterised by optical and high resolution scanning electron microscopy (FEG SEM). Hardness measurements and tensile tests were performed to characterize mechanical properties. To reveal structural changes induced during thermomechanical treatment and during tensile tests a magnetic induction method was additionally applied. Experimental study validated the ability of the treatment to produce an austenitic stainless steel with the grain size of about 1.4 mu m which exhibits tensile strength of around 1000 MPa while ductility remains close to 60 %. The results obtained for both thermomechanical conditions are compared and the relationship between microstructure refinement, phase content and mechanical properties is discussed.
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MICROSTRUCTURAL INVESTIGATION AND MECHANICAL TESTING OF AN ULTRAFINE-GRAINED AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL
Chlupová, Alice ; Man, Jiří ; Polák, Jaroslav ; Karjalainen, L. P.
Special thermomechanical treatment based on high degree deformation followed by reversion annealing was applied to 301LN austenitic stainless steel to achieve ultrafine-grained (UFG) structure with considerably enhanced mechanical properties. Two different conditions of the thermomechanical treatment were adopted and resulting microstructures with different grain sizes were characterised by optical and high resolution scanning electron microscopy (FEG SEM). Hardness measurements and tensile tests were performed to characterize mechanical properties. To reveal structural changes induced during thermomechanical treatment and during tensile tests a magnetic induction method was additionally applied. Experimental study validated the ability of the treatment to produce an austenitic stainless steel with the grain size of about 1.4 mu m which exhibits tensile strength of around 1000 MPa while ductility remains close to 60 %. The results obtained for both thermomechanical conditions are compared and the relationship between microstructure refinement, phase content and mechanical properties is discussed.
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LCF behaviour of 301LN steel: coarse-grained vs. UFG-bimodal structure
Man, Jiří ; Chlupová, Alice ; Kuběna, Ivo ; Kruml, Tomáš ; Man, O. ; Järvenpää, A. ; Karjalainen, L. P. ; Polák, Jaroslav
Low-cycle fatigue (LCF) behaviour of metastable austenitic 301LN steel with different grain sizes – coarse-grained (14 µm) and UFG (1.4 µm) with a grain bimodality – produced by reversion annealing (RA) was investigated. Symmetrical push-pull LCF tests were conducted on flat sheet specimens at room temperature with constant strain rate of 2×10–3 s–1 and constant total strain amplitude ranging from 0.4% to 0.8%. After completion of fatigue tests a ferritescope was adopted for quantitative assessment of volume fraction of deformation induced martensite (DIM). Microstructural changes, distribution and morphology of DIM in the volume of material were characterized at different scales by colour etching, TEM and EBSD techniques. Experimental data on microstructural changes are confronted with the stress-strain response and with the chemical heterogeneity present in the material.
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Crack initiation in austenitic stainless steel sanicro 25 subjected to thermomechanical fatigue
Petráš, Roman ; Škorík, Viktor ; Polák, Jaroslav
Thermomechanical fatigue experiments were performed with austenitic stainless Sanicro 25 steel. Several amplitudes of mechanical strain in a wide temperature interval (250-700 °C) were applied to the specimens. Mechanical response was recorded and fatigue lives were obtained. Scanning electron microscopy combined with FIB technique was used to study the mechanism of crack initiation in in-phase and in out-of-phase thermomechanical cycling. Different mechanisms of the crack initiation were found in these two types of loading. During in-phase loading fatigue cracks start in grain boundaries by cracking of the oxide. Cracks grew preferentially along grain boundaries which resulted in rapid crack initiation and low fatigue life. In out-of-phase loading multiple cracks perpendicular to the stress axis developed only after sufficiently thick oxide layer was formed and cracked in low temperature loading half-cycle. The cracks in oxide allowed localized repeated oxidation and finally also cracking. The cracks grow transgranularly and result in longer fatigue life.
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IN-SITU HIGH TEMPERATURE LOW CYCLE FATIGUE STUDY OF SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY EVOLUTION IN NICKEL SUPERALLOY
Petrenec, M. ; Polák, Jaroslav ; Šamořil, T. ; Dluhoš, J. ; Obrtlík, Karel
In-situ Low Cycle Fatigue test (LCF) at temperature 635 degrees C have been performed in Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) equipped with Electron Backscatter Diffraction analysis (EBSD) on a small dog-bone-shaped specimen of cast Inconel 713LC superalloy. The aim of the work was to study early stage fatigue damage at high temperature by the observations of the characteristic surface relief evolution and crystallographic characterization changes by EBSD. The detail of slip bands shape was checked by FIB and AFM microscopes. The LCF test was conducted on GATAN stage with pre tilted position and constant stress amplitude of total cycle number of 20. The relief produced in the first cycle determines the other locations of the localized cyclic slip to the primary slip planes (111). The relief was modified in the next cycles but without forming additionally new slip traces in the primary system. Based on EBSD analysis before and after LCF, the orientation of two grains was changed which caused activation of second slip system. The damage mechanism evolution is closely connected with the cyclic strain localization to the persistent slip bands where the fatigue cracks were initiated.
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Užití psychometrie v organizačním prostředí
Polák, Jaroslav ; Štikar, Jiří (oponent) ; Bahbouh, Radvan (vedoucí práce)
Teoretická část této práce má sloužit jako jakási základní příručka pro ty, kteří chtějí používat psychometrické, resp. psychologické testy v prostředí firmy nebo organizace. V úvodní části je stručně vysvětleno, co to psychometrie je, nastíněn její historický vývoj, důvody jejího používání, způsob počítání ekonomické efektivity těchto metod a oblasti nejběžnější aplikace závěrů z psychometrického testování v souvislosti s řízením lidských zdrojů. Další část se pak zabývá základním druhovým rozdělením psychometrických metod a popisem základních vlastností, které mají psychometrické testy splňovat. Následující část textu je potom více zaměřena na praktické otázky týkající se používání psychologických testů v podmínkách organizace - od vytvoření jasné koncepce, přes analýzu práce, výběr vhodných testových metod, administraci a skórování testů až po jejich interpretaci a poskytnutí zpětné vazby. Praktická část této práce je věnována validizačnímu průzkumu v podmínkách jedné nejmenované společnosti. Hlavním cílem průzkumu bylo ověřit validitu a tedy i oprávněnost užití testů NMG1 (test kritického numerického vyvozování), VMG1 (test verbálního kritického vyvozování) a OPQ32 (osobnostní dotazník) společnosti SHL a testu RSPM (Ravenovy standardní progresivní matice) a zjištění, které osobnostní vlastnosti...
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