Damage-coupled unified constitutive modeling of 316LN stainless steel including dynamic strain aging under various tension dwell time: A macroscopic phenomenological study

A damage-coupled unified constitutive model is developed for 316LN stainless steel based on the framework of the Abdel-Karim and Ohno model. In the modified model, a kinematic hardening coefficient related to accumulated plastic strain is introduced in the linear hardening term, and a damage coefficient is incorporated in the static recovery term. Meanwhile, the parameters of isotropic hardening and kinematic hardening are associated with the maximum plastic strain rate and plastic strain memory to describe the effects of dynamic strain aging and plastic strain memory. Additionally, the kinematic hardening coefficients and static recovery coefficients correlate with dwell time to simulate stress relaxation throughout the whole-life time. The comparison between the simulation and experimental results indicates the validity of the modified model under the conditions of low-cycle fatigue and creep-fatigue interaction. After identifying the material parameters using a combination of classic parameter determination methods and optimization algorithms, the cyclic stress response and hysteresis loops can be accurately simulated throughout the whole-life time.