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Thermomechanical fatigue of stainless steels for automotive exhaust systems

Pierre-Olivier Santacreu
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Alain Köster
Luc Rémy
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Stainless steel grades are now widely used for automotive exhaust systems, in order to increase their durability. Indeed, the exhaust systems are subjected to ever more severe conditions and they include high technology components such as manifolds, catalytic converters and particle filters. This evolution is a direct consequence of the worldwide effort to decrease automotive pollutant emissions in accordance with the new environmental regulations. This paper deals with the thermomechanical fatigue (TMF) of stainless steels at high temperature, specially behaviour and damage models, and with the recent progress in the development TMF fatigue design tools using FEA related to the design of stainless steel exhaust manifolds. A numerical method is proposed for the design and the lifetime prediction of stainless steel exhaust manifold under a thermal fatigue load. It includes the modeling of manifolds submitted to the thermal cycle reproduced from motor bench tests. The identification of the constitutive law, in particular the elasto-viscoplastic model, for a wide range of temperatures, provides the most realistic stress-strain response of the structure. Finally, a dedicated damage criterion is proposed on the basis of the maximal temperature and plastic strain amplitude reached during a thermal cycle (modified-Taira model). Identification of a more general damage model on the basis of TMF tests is also discussed.
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hal-00145071 , version 1 (27-03-2012)

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Pierre-Olivier Santacreu, Laurent Bucher, Alain Köster, Luc Rémy. Thermomechanical fatigue of stainless steels for automotive exhaust systems. Revue de Métallurgie, 2006, Janvier, pp.37-42. ⟨hal-00145071⟩
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