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Primary creep X80 pipeline steel at room temperature using molecular dynamics simulation

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Gas transformation field recognized that X80 pipeline steel would fail in operation occasionally some days after pressure stabilized, commonly referred to as a time-delayed failure. Standard creep test usually presents an average and macrostructure results, but understand creep behavior at crystal size level is still interesting. This paper presents the analysis results of the primary creep behavior at dislocation evolution under some stress levels using molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. The polycrystalline model in the base metal region under the different retaining stresses (305 MPa, 427 MPa and 549 MPa), the different stress rates (25 MPa/ps, 50 MPa/ps and 100 MPa/ps) and the cyclic loading history are applied and analyzed using MD simulation. The effects of retaining stress, stress rate and cyclic loading history on the creep deformation of the X80 pipeline steel are investigated. The primary creep increases with the increment of retain stress, but little moving dislocation is produced under 50% minimum yield stress (305 MPa), the primary creep at reloaded retain stress is lower than that of the first load, which is thought as the decrease of moving dislocations. The high stress-loaded rate also results in a decrease primary creep. In addition, the defects and dislocation density under different conditions are analyzed and the room temperature creep mechanism of the model is discussed. The results obtained from this study will provide a reference to the research of room temperature creep of X80 pipeline steel.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Numbers: 11572253 and 11972302). The authors would like to gratefully acknowledge this support.

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  1. Department of Engineering Mechanics, Bi-Inspired and Advanced Energy Research Center, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710129, Shaanxi, China

    Peng Wang, Jian Ding & Fenghui Wang

  2. Tubular Goods Research Institute, China National Petroleum Corporation, Xi’an, 710065, Shaanxi, China

    Peng Wang & Chunyong Huo

  3. The College of Mechatronic Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China

    Wenqian Hao & Jiamiao Xie

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PW contributed to methodology; data curation; validation; writing—original draft. WH contributed to investigation; methodology; validation; writing—original draft. JX contributed to formal analysis; writing—review & editing. JD contributed to conceptualization; software; validation; writing—original draft. FW contributed to methodology; investigation; validation; writing—review & editing. CH contributed to methodology; formal analysis; writing—review & editing.

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Wang, P., Hao, W., Xie, J. et al. Primary creep X80 pipeline steel at room temperature using molecular dynamics simulation. Appl. Phys. A 128, 204 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-022-05339-w

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