Estimation of high temperature fatigue lifetime of SUS304 steel with an energy parameter in the critical plane

The paper studies the application of the energy parameter, a sum of elastic and plastic strain energy densities in the critical plane, for the correlation of two series of proportional biaxial low-cycle lives using SUS304 stainless steel at elevated temperature. The first data used thin-walled cylinder specimens subjected to 7 proportional strain paths of combined tension-torsion and the other used cruciform specimens subjected to 5 proportional strain paths of biaxial tension-compression. These tests were done at the temperature of 923 K. The normal total strain energy density in the plane with the maximum damage was a suitable parameter for describing the test results.