Issue 30

A. Carofalo et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 30 (2014) 349-359; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.30.42 357 increased, with the exception of failure. At this purpose, the failure of TIG specimens happen roughly, without showing the increase of strain rate that usually characterizes the tertiary creep behaviour (Fig. 9). (a) (b) Figure 7: Comparison of fatigue curves in terms of applied strain range at RT (a) and 538°C (b) . (a) (b) Figure 8: Comparison of fatigue curves in terms of measured stress range at RT (a) and 538°C (b) . Δσ A /Δσ max Δε A /Δε max [%] Base Material TIG var % Base Material TIG var % RT 0.673 0.601 -10.7 0.516 0.433 -8.6 538°C 0.565 0.464 -17.9 0.862 0.581 -26.5 Table 6: Fatigue strength at N ref cycles of base material and TIG. time [h/h max ] σ ε c = 0.2% ε c = 0.5% ε c = 1% ε c = 2% failure N/mm 2 BM TIG var % BM TIG var % BM TIG var % BM TIG var % BM TIG var % 427.5 0.0372 0.0057 -84 0.0976 0.0406 -58 0.1919 0.1431 -25 0.4047 0.3616 -10 1.0000 0.6107 -38 475 0.0006 0.0010 57 0.0023 0.0042 83 0.0167 0.0190 13 0.0336 0.0606 80 0.2743 0.1178 -57 Table 7: Creep behaviour of base material and TIG.