Test data for uniaxial creep on material INCONEL 617 at 850 Celsius and a stress of 48 MPa

The Alloy 617 creep rupture data were determined for the high temperature reactor projects (the direct cycle helium turbine project, the nuclear process heat project and the district heating project) of the Federal Republic of Germany and the State of North Rhine Westphalia, the aim being to qualify the alloy for service at temperatures up to 950°C. Alloy 617 was the prime candidate alloy for construction of the He-He intermediate heat exchanger and hot gas ducting. Several batches and product forms (forged bar, rolled plate, pipes and tubes) of the alloy were investigated and special attention was given to the effects of the service environments (helium containing different impurity gases, such as hydrogen, water vapour, carbon monoxide and methane, all at microbar levels, and methane reforming gas mixture) on the properties. In the test machines, these test environments led to carburisation of test pieces. However, analysis of the data showed that the stress rupture data for tests in air, in impure helium and in methane reforming gas lay in the same scatter band at each temperature tested.

The creep rupture tests were carried out in single-specimen and multi-specimen test machines. In the single specimen machines the strain was continuously monitored and strain readings were taken once a day. In the multi-specimen test rigs, there were six strings, each with a different load. There were up to eight test pieces per string and strain measurements were made by interrupting the tests, cooling to room temperature, then measuring the length of each test piece using a travelling microscope. Test interruptions for strain measurements were generally every 1000 h. The tests were carried out according to the German Standard DIN 50118 (1982).

The data (secondary creep rate, time to 1% strain, time to rupture) were used for the formulation of draft nuclear design rules for the high temperature reactor systems, which are summarised in 'Proceedings of the Workshop on Structural Design Criteria for HTR', G Breitbach, F Schubert, H Nickel, Jül-Conf-71, April 1989, Berichte der Kernforschungsanlage Jülich GmbH, ISSN 0344-5798.

In addition to the creep rupture data, Alloy 617 tensile properties, low cycle fatigue and creep crack growth data are stored in MatDB.

本数据集的617合金（Alloy 617）蠕变断裂数据，源自德意志联邦共和国与北莱茵-威斯特伐利亚州的高温堆项目（含直接循环氦气轮机项目、核工艺热项目及区域供热项目），旨在验证该合金可在最高950℃的工况下安全服役。617合金是氦-氦中间热交换器与热气体导管的首选候选合金。研究覆盖了该合金的多个批次与多种产品形态（锻棒、轧制板材、管材与管件），并重点关注了服役环境对其力学性能的影响。服役环境包括含微量（微巴级别）氢、水蒸气、一氧化碳及甲烷等杂质气体的氦气，以及甲烷重整混合气体。在试验设备中，上述试验环境会导致试样发生渗碳现象。但数据分析结果表明，在各试验温度下，空气、不纯氦气及甲烷重整气体环境下的应力断裂数据均处于同一离散带内。

蠕变断裂试验分别采用单试样与多试样试验设备开展。单试样试验机中，应变被持续监测，且每日记录一次应变数据。多试样试验台共包含6组加载单元，每组单元的加载载荷各不相同。每组单元最多布置8个试样，应变测量需通过中断试验、冷却至室温后，使用读数显微镜（travelling microscope）测量每个试样的长度来完成。应变测量的试验中断周期通常为每1000小时一次。所有试验均按照德国标准DIN 50118（1982版）执行。

本数据集包含的蠕变断裂相关数据（二次蠕变速率、1%应变对应时间、断裂时间），被用于制定高温堆（HTR）系统的核设计规范草案。相关内容总结于《高温堆结构设计准则研讨会论文集》（作者：G Breitbach、F Schubert、H Nickel，会议编号Jül-Conf-71，1989年4月，于利希核研究中心股份有限公司报告，ISSN 0344-5798）中。

除蠕变断裂数据外，材料数据库（MatDB）中还存储了617合金的拉伸性能、低周疲劳及蠕变裂纹扩展数据。