FINITE-ELEMENT MODELING OF LOW-TEMPERATURE AUTOFRETTAGE OF THICK-WALLED TUBES OF THE AUSTENITIC STAINLESS-STEEL AISI-304-L - PART-II - THICK-WALLED TUBE WITH CROSS-BORE
H. Feng et al., FINITE-ELEMENT MODELING OF LOW-TEMPERATURE AUTOFRETTAGE OF THICK-WALLED TUBES OF THE AUSTENITIC STAINLESS-STEEL AISI-304-L - PART-II - THICK-WALLED TUBE WITH CROSS-BORE, Modelling and simulation in materials science and engineering, 6(1), 1998, pp. 71-85
In part I, the autofrettage of a smooth thick-walled tube of the auste
nitic stainless steel AISI 304 L was studied by finite-element (FE) mo
delling. It was shown that low-temperature autofrettage is more effici
ent than autofrettage at room temperature, since it produces a larger
beneficial compressive residual tangential (hoop) stress at the inner
bore of the tube and hence permits a more significant enhancement of t
he the fatigue resistance against pulsating internal pressure. The obj
ective of the present study (part II) was to investigate the technical
ly more relevant case of a thick-walled tube with a cross-bore made of
the same steel. For this purpose, three-dimensional FE calculations w
ere performed in order to characterize the influences of the autofrett
age pressure and temperature on the stress and strain changes, in part
icular at the site of the cross-bore, also taking into account the eff
ects of work hardening and reverse yielding. The results indicate that
low-temperature autofrettage cah also be applied advantageously in th
e case of thick-walled tubes with a cross-bore by virtue of the signif
icantly larger residual compressive stresses, compared to room tempera
ture autofrettage. From the quantitative FE calculations, the optimal
combination of autofrettage temperature and pressure were concluded to
lie in the range of -90 degrees C/3500 bar to -110 degrees C/3250 bar
, respectively. The calculated results were found to be in fair agreem
ent with the measured values.