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Steel and Composite Structures
  Volume 40, Number 5, September10 2021 , pages 633-648
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/scs.2021.40.5.633
 


Tensile behavior of stainless steel S30408 at the Arctic low temperature
Jia-Bao Yan, Zhicheng Lin, Peng Xie, Yun-Biao Luo and Yanbo Li

 
Abstract
    This paper investigated tensile behaviours of S30408 at the Arctic low temperatures (T) of -80~20C. A cooling chamber equipped with liquid nitrogen gas was adopted to rebuild the Arctic low-temperature environment. Standard tension tests were performed on 48 coupons with different thickness at different T values of -80, -60, -30, and 20C. Test results revealed the ductile failure mode of stainless steel S30408 even at -80C. The tensile stress-strain (o-e) curves of S30408 at ambient temperatures exhibited a long strain hardening plateau. Meanwhile, the low-temperature tensile o-e curves of S30408 were different from those at ambient temperatures, which exhibited a second hardening stage with a larger slope than the first hardening. The decreasing T generally increased the elastic modulus, yield and ultimate strength, but reduced the ductility of S30408. Decreasing the T from 20 to -80 reduced the ductility of S30408 by about 28%, but improved the elastic modulus, yield and ultimate strength by about 20%, 22%, and 75%, respectively. This paper also adopted the best subset regression analysis method to develop empirical formulae on estimating influences of T on mechanical properties of S30408. Validations of the predictions by these empirical formulae against the test results in the literature proved their accuracies.
 
Key Words
    Arctic structures; cold region; low temperature; mechanical properties; stainless steel; stress-strain curve; tensile test
 
Address
Jia-Bao Yan and Yun-Biao Luo: Key Laboratory of Coast Civil Structure Safety of Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China;
School of Civil Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China
Zhicheng Lin and Yanbo Li: School of Civil Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China
Peng Xie: School of Marine Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong 519082, China
 

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