氢环境下高钢级管道环焊缝断裂损伤本构研究

Fracture Damage Constitutive Model for High-Grade Steel Pipeline Girth Welds in Hydrogen Environment

  • 摘要: 氢致断裂是金属材料在氢环境中发生失效的重要机制,目前氢环境下高钢级管道环焊缝材料力学性能劣化规律尚不明确、断裂行为难以准确表征。针对此,本文建立了位错捕获密度与材料塑性应变的关联关系,并给出了碳化物、马氏体晶界的氢陷阱密度计算公式;基于Oriani平衡理论推导捕获位点的占据率与晶格位点占据率之间的关联关系,探明了晶格氢浓度、捕获氢浓度、陷阱结合能的相互影响规律;基于氢扩散控制方程与质量平衡方程推导出考虑氢浓度梯度、静水应力梯度、塑性应变梯度耦合作用的氢扩散本构方程;将氢损伤因子这一参数引入到微观空穴形核、生长、聚合的过程中,在Complete Gurson Model基础上建立了考虑氢介质与复杂应力状态耦合的氢环境下高钢级管道环焊缝断裂损伤本构,通过UMATHT、UMAT、UEXTERNALDB多子程序全关联逻辑实现了氢损伤本构的程序化,且通过试验验证了模型准确性。结果表明,母材在空气与20%掺氢环境下的载荷-位移曲线模拟误差分别约为1.25%与1.45%;针对非均质环焊缝材料,模拟R阻力曲线与试验结果的误差不超过10%。本文构建了氢环境下高钢级管道环焊缝断裂损伤本构模型,为开展掺氢输送天然气管道环焊缝断裂行为研究,提出不同复杂服役环境下掺氢管道环焊缝断裂评价方法提供了技术支撑。

     

    Abstract: Hydrogen-induced fracture is an important failure mechanism of metallic materials in hydrogen environments. At present, the degradation behavior of the mechanical properties of girth weld materials in high-grade pipelines under hydrogen environments remains unclear, and their fracture behavior cannot yet be accurately characterized. To address this issue, this study established the relationship between dislocation trap density and plastic strain, and proposed calculation formulas for hydrogen trap densities at carbide interfaces and martensitic grain boundaries. Based on Oriani’s equilibrium theory, the relationship between the occupancy of trap sites and that of lattice sites was derived, and the interaction mechanism among lattice hydrogen concentration, trapped hydrogen concentration, and trap binding energy was clarified. On this basis, a hydrogen diffusion constitutive equation was derived from the hydrogen diffusion governing equation and the mass balance equation by considering the coupled effects of hydrogen concentration gradient, hydrostatic stress gradient, and plastic strain gradient. Furthermore, by introducing a hydrogen damage factor into the processes of micro-void nucleation, growth, and coalescence, a fracture-damage constitutive model for high-grade pipeline girth welds under hydrogen environments was established on the basis of the Complete Gurson Model, considering the coupled effects of hydrogen media and complex stress states. The constitutive model was implemented through the fully coupled logic of multiple user subroutines, including UMATHT, UMAT, and UEXTERNALDB, and its accuracy was validated experimentally. The results show that the relative errors between the simulated and experimental load-displacement curves of the base metal are approximately 1.25% and 1.45% in air and in a 20% hydrogen-blended environment, respectively. For heterogeneous girth weld materials, the error between the simulated R-resistance curve and the experimental results is less than 10%. A fracture-damage constitutive model for high-grade pipeline girth welds under hydrogen environments was established in this study, which provides technical support for investigating the fracture behavior of girth welds in hydrogen-blended natural gas pipelines and for developing fracture assessment methods for girth welds under different complex service conditions.

     

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