Viktor Norman

Linköping University | LiU · Department of Management and Engineering (IEI)

Exploring crack growth behaviour is needed to establish accurate fatigue life predictions. Cracked specimens were tested under strain-controlled out-of-phase thermomechanical fatigue conditions. The tests included dwell times and three different minimum temperatures. Higher minimum temperature gave faster crack growth rates while the additions of d...

The deformation mechanisms of a single crystal nickel-base superalloy with and without Ru-doped have been investigated under out-of-phase thermomechanical fatigue. The Ru-doped alloy exhibits a thermomechanical fatigue life more than twice as high compared to the Ru-free alloy and a difference in thermomechanical fatigue behavior is also displayed....

A new accelerated creep assessment method to evaluate the creep performance of metals and alloys from high-temperature tensile tests, i.e. slow-strain-rate testing (SSRT), is proposed and evaluated. The method consists of decomposing the inelastic strain into a plastic and creep component by adopting general assumptions on the inelastic strain beha...

Understanding of crack growth behaviour is necessary to predict accurate fatigue lives. Out-of-phase thermomechanical fatigue crack propagation tests were performed on FB2 steel used in high-temperature steam turbine sections. Testing results showed crack closure where the compressive part of the fatigue cycle affected crack growth rate. Crack clos...

Strain-controlled out-of-phase thermo-mechanical fatigue tests at 100-500 °C and various strain ranges were conducted on five cast iron grades, including one lamellar, three compacted and one spheroidal graphite iron. Investigations of graphite morphology and matrix characteristics was performed to associate parameters, such as geometrical features...

The current paper presents work on identification and evaluation of a range of factors influencing accuracy and comparability of data generated by three laboratories carrying out stress-controlled thermo-mechanical fatigue crack growth tests. It addresses crack length measurements, heating methods and temperature measurement techniques. It also pro...

The crack driving mechanisms in a coarse grained nickel-base superalloy RR1000 when subjected to in- and out of phase thermo mechanical fatigue are investigated. It is found that the difference in fatigue crack growth rate between these two load conditions is accounted for by the different mechanical conditions at the crack tip region, rather than...

The complicated constitutive behaviour of cast iron, involving a non-linear elastic regime, tension-compression stress asymmetry, varying elastic modulus and an inflection in the tension-to-compression hardening curve, is investigated using a micromechanical modelling approach. In this way, it is demonstrated that the abnormalities observed in the...

The development of fatigue life assessment models for vehicle components exposed to thermomechanical fatigue supports the establishing of adequate maintenance intervals that neither cause unnecessary vehicle downtime, nor jeopardize the function of the components. In modern automotive applications, braking is closely related to safety and is common...

The complete fatigue process involving the growth of microstructurally small fatigue cracks prior to macrocrack initiation and the subsequent large crack propagation in notched compacted graphite iron, EN-GJV-400, specimens subjected to thermo-mechanical fatigue has been investigated. It is shown that microcracks are initiated at graphite tips with...

The damage mechanisms active in silicon-molybdenum cast irons, namely EN-GJS-SiMo5-1 and SiMo1000, under thermo-mechanical fatigue and combined thermo-mechanical and high-cycle fatigue conditions have been investigated. The studied load conditions are those experienced at critical locations in exhaust manifolds of heavy-vehicle diesel engines, name...

The effect of superimposing a high-cycle fatigue strain load on an out-of-phase thermo-mechanical fatigue test of a lamellar, compacted and spheroidal graphite iron has been investigated. In particular, different total mechanical strain ranges, maximum temperatures and high-cycle fatigue strain ranges have been studied. From this, a new property ha...

The effect of adding a superimposed high-frequent strain load, denoted as a high-cycle fatigue strain component, upon a strain-controlled thermo-mechanical fatigue test has been studied on a compacted graphite iron EN-GJV-400 for different thermo-mechanical fatigue cycles and high-cycle fatigue strain ranges. It is demonstrated that the successive...

Thermomechanical fatigue properties of a compacted graphite iron in an out of phase configuration are investigated for different maximum temperatures and mechanical strain ranges. Furthermore, the stress-strain hysteresis loops are analysed, and, in particular, the unloading modulus, i.e. the elastic modulus measured during specimen unloading, is o...