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A novel approach to the prediction of long-term creep fracture: with application to 18Cr–12Ni–Mo steel (plate and bar)

Current Impact Factor = 1.9. Five Year Impact Factor = 1.7. Designers of new power generation plants are looking to make use existing austenitic steels so that these plants can operate with much higher steam and therefore metal temperatures. This is an important paper because it shows for the first time, that the new Wilshire methodology, once modified in the ways outlined in the paper, is capable of estimating the minimum stresses causing rupture in 100, 000 h from generated rupture data out to about only 5,000 h. This paper can be seen as part of the verification process needed before austenitic stainless steels can be bought into safe operation more cost effectively and over a quicker time scale than is currently possible