Fatigue behavior of maraging steel 300 |
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Authors: | L F Van Swam R M Pelloux N J Grant |
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Affiliation: | (1) Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island;(2) Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. |
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Abstract: | The cyclic stress-strain curves, the low cycle and high cycle fatigue lives and the fatigue crack growth rates of annealed
(1 h 820°C) and aged (3 h 480°C) maraging steel 300 were determined. Incremental step testing and stable hysteresis loop tip
measurements were used to determine the cyclic σ-ε curves. Both annealed and aged maraging steels were found to cyclically soften at room temperature over a plastic strain
range from 0.1 to 20 pct. The S-N curves were determined from 10 to 107 cycles to failure by plastic strain controlled low cycle fatigue tests performed in air and load controlled high cycle fatigue
tests performed in dry argon. The test results compared very well with the theoretical lifetime predictions derived from Tomkins’
theory. Fatigue crack growth rates were measured in air and dry argon for the annealed and aged alloys. Crack growth rates
of annealed maraging steel were found to be equal to those of aged maraging steel at rates between 10-7 and 10-5 in./cycle. A significant difference in crack growth rates in the two environments was found at low stress intensity factor
ranges, indicating a high susceptibility to corrosion fatigue in the presence of water vapor. The mechanisms of cyclic softening
in the two alloys are discussed in terms of dislocations rearrangement in the annealed alloy and dislocation-precipitate interactions
in the aged alloy. |
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