Fatigue life improvement and grain growth of gradient nanostructured industrial zirconium during high cycle fatigue

doi:10.1016/j.jmst.2021.03.004

Abstract

Abstract:

The effect of surface gradient nanostructure on the fatigue life of commercial pure (CP) Zr was investigated. Four point bending fatigue tests indicated that the fatigue limit of CP Zr with surface gradient nanostructure was increased by about 28.3 % compared with the original sample (annealed state). The microstructure evolution at different fatigue loading stages was characterized. The high strength of surface gradient nanostructure could increase the crack initiation resistance. Furthermore, electron back scattered diffraction (EBSD) analysis demonstrated that the surface nanocrystals grew and rotated gradually during the fatigue loading, which was beneficial to reducing stress concentration, inhibit fatigue crack initiation, and prolong crack initiation life. The stored distortion energy of CP Zr calculated before and after fatigue indicated that the stored distortion energy decreased dramatically during cyclic loading, which provided the driving force for grain growth. Besides, the growth of nanocrystals consumed the mechanical energy produced by the applied load to a certain extent, thus, slowing down the accumulation of fatigue damage. The coarse grains at the interior could deform plastically and reduce the crack growth rate. In addition, the compressive residual stress caused by USSP treatment reduced the local effective stress and the driving force of crack growth.

Key words: High cycle fatigue, Industrial pure zirconium, Grain growth, Surface gradient nanostructure

Conghui Zhang, Xiangkang Zeng, Jiapeng Cheng, Yaomian Wang. Fatigue life improvement and grain growth of gradient nanostructured industrial zirconium during high cycle fatigue[J]. J. Mater. Sci. Technol., 2021, 87: 101-107.

Figures/Tables 11

Table 1 Chemical composition of Zr-3 alloy (wt.%).

Zr	Fe + Cr	C	N	H	O
≥99.48	0.25	0.08	0.05	0.012	0.13

Fig. 1. Four-point bending fatigue diagram.

Fig. 2. Four-point bending S-N curve of original and surface gradient nanostructured samples.

Fig. 3. SEM images of fractographies at low magnification: (a) original sample, (b) surface gradient nanostructured sample.

Fig. 4. SEM images of crack source at high magnification: (a) original sample, (b) surface gradient nanostructured sample.

Fig. 5. Morphology of crack propagation zones at surface gradient nanostructured sample.

Fig. 6. SEM images of transient fracture zones: (a) original sample, (b) surface gradient nanostructured sample.

Fig. 7. Microstructure evolution of nanocrystals under stress amplitude of 204 MPa: (a) 1 × 104 cycles, (b) 1 × 105 cycles, (c) 3 × 105 cycles, (d) 5 × 105 cycles, (e) 1 × 106 cycles, (f) 2 × 106 cycles.

Fig. 8. Inverse pole figure of surface gradient nanostructure of unloaded and 1 × 106 cycles fatigue loaded samples: (a) unloaded sample; (b) 1 × 106 cycles fatigue loaded sample.

Fig. 9. Storage energy distribution of surface gradient nanostructure of unloaded and 1 × 106 cycles fatigue loaded samples: (a) unloaded sample, (b) 1 × 106 cycles fatigue loaded sample.

Fig. 10. Schmid factor distribution of surface gradient nanostructure of unloaded and 1 × 106 cycles fatigue loaded samples: (a, c) unloaded sample, (b, d) 1 × 106 cycles fatigue loaded sample.

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