A New 3D Creep-Fatigue-Elasticity Damage Interaction Diagram Based on the Total Tensile Strain Energy Density Model

Fatigue damage, creep damage, and their interactions are the critical factors in degrading the integrity of most high-temperature engineering structures. A reliable creep-fatigue damage interaction diagram is a crucial issue for the design and assessment of high-temperature components used in power plants. In this paper, a new three-dimensional creep-fatigue-elasticity damage interaction diagram was constructed based on a developed life prediction model for both high-temperature fatigue and creep fatigue. The total tensile strain energy density concept is adopted as a damage parameter for life prediction by using the elastic strain energy density and mean stress concepts. The model was validated by a great deal of data such as P91 steel at 550 °C, Haynes 230 at 850 °C, Alloy 617 at 850 and 950 °C, and Inconel 625 at 815 °C. The estimation values have very high accuracy since nearly all the test data fell into the scatter band of 2.0.