New industrial tool for efficient high temperature material development (NEWTOOL)

Purpose and goal

The purpose of this project was to develop an effective assessment tool for high temperature material intended for industry, which is considered to have been fulfilled. A material test approach has been developed and validated by conventional methods, which have shown good reliability in the tested intervals and material types. The underlying theory has been analyzed and validated due to the experimental results.

Expected results and effects

The project has investigated slow strain-rate testing (SSRT) as a more efficient method of assessing material´s creep resistance, i.e. material´s tendency to deform under static high-temperature conditions. The results show that creep deformation acquired from SSRT data based on the developed method, is the same as measured by conventional methods. The study strongly supportes the idea that the method can be passed on to industrial and academic material development of high temperature material.

Planned approach and implementation

Six work packages were identified at the beginning of the project and have been executed within the project time frames execpt of the last one, namely the dissemination of results and authoring of manuscripts. This work is still ongoing and is expected to be completed by the beginning of next year. Otherwise, the conducted work included material testing, method development and analysis, which went according to plan, generating expected results according to the initially established hypothesis.