CREEP AND LARSON MILLER

PARAMETER

By: Simran Singh, Mechanical dept. , Technip

CREEP PHENOMENON
 Dictionary Meaning:To move slowly
 Creep is noticeable at high temperatures around 60% of melting
temperature of metal
 Strength of metals decreases with increase in temperature
 At atomic level Mobility of atoms / dislocation increases which
generates slip planes which further favours yielding
 Important topic in design of Gas turbines, Nuclear Reactors, Space
Rockets (gained importance after WW II)
EFFECT OF TIME &
TEPERATURE
 At lower temperature (around 30% of melting
temperature) effect of creep can be ignored
and mechanical strength is not time
dependent.
 At higher temperature mechanical strength is
time dependent.
What will happen if we place
burner at ceiling fan rod...?
MECHANICAL DESIGN AT HIGH
TEMPERATURE
 How can I declare a component is
mechanically safe..
 Generated Stress < Allowable stress
 How can I calculate allowable stress
 In case of static loading at lower temperature
we can directly refer stress –strain diagram
MECHANICAL DESIGN AT HIGH
TEMPERATURE
 It is very important to note that temperature
and time has no effect in case of static loading
at lower temperatures
 While designing vessels for allowable stress
we refer ASME SEC II Part D
 But Mechanical properties become time
dependent at higher temperature
 In this case we cannot directly refer stress –
strain diagram to calculate allowable stress
ALLOWABLE STRESS AT HIGH
TEMPERATURE
 Problem becomes complex when number of
independent parameters increase.
 Now we have three parameters to calculate
allowable stress:
1. Strain
2. Temperature
3. Time
ALLOWABLE STRESS AT HIGH
TEMPERATURE
LARSON MILLER PARAMETER
 At this stage we face two major problems in
calculating allowable stress:
1. More than two independent parameters
2. Very long test durations (mentioned in ASME
code)
 Answer to these problems is LMP(Larson
Miller Parameter)
LARSON MILLER PARAMETER
 LMP = T(C + log t)
T- Temperature in K
t – Time in hrs
C= 20 approx.
 Its very important to note that we have single
parameter representing effect of both time and
temperature and we can get same value at
higher temp. for lower time instead of testing
for years
LARSON MILLER PARAMETER
References:

• Material Science & Engineering by William F.

Smith

• Mechanical Metallurgy by George E. Dieter

• API 579
THANK YOU