Characterisation of creep behaviour using the power law model in copper alloy

Abstract

This paper presents a numerical strategy for the characterisation of the creep behaviour model of the copper alloy, which is widely used in aircraft applications under creep conditions. The high possibility of the material failing, while operating under load at an elevated temperature, has led to the important study of the creep lifetime prediction analysis, by presenting the Norton’s rule based on the Power-law model to describe the secondary creep behaviour of the material. In order to demonstrate the nature of the creep formulation, the SOL 400 modules from MSC Nastran 2014 are implemented in order to conduct the uniaxial tensile test in 2000 N of applied load and 473 K of temperature condition. As a result, the exponential curve is formed from the relationship of the creep strain rate and stress, with a 5.1% error based on the value of the stress exponent, n, between the simulation and experimental results and this was still be acceptable because it was relatively small due to the formulation in the simulation. Consequently, a relation of the creep rate curve can then be plotted with respect to the load steps and the variation patterns due to the stress factor also being discussed. Therefore, the results show a good agreement, which indicates the capability of this model to give an accurate and precise estimation of the secondary creep behaviour of the materials.