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Abstract The present work aimed at the study of the influence of the internal stresses on the creep behaviour of the austenitic steel X8 CrNiMoNb 16 16. The experimental work included different creep experiments under different stresses and temperatures in the primary, secondary (steady state), and tertiary stages. The strain transient dip test was applied to determine the level of the internal stress during different creep stages. The theoretical part included the application of the dislocation theory to deduce certain relations to predict the level of the internal stresses and to describe the creep behaviour of the austenitic steel. The following results have been obtained: The creep behaviour of the austenitic steel X8 CrNiMoNb 16 16 is highly affected by the internal back stresses which resist the creep deformation. - The internal stress is developed with the initial creep loading and progresses as the deformation continues. - The internal stress -which is proportional to the square root of the immobile dislocation density~ increases during the primary stage with the creep strain approaching its steady state value. - The effective stress -which is the difference between the applied and the internal stress- decreases as the creep strain increases causing the creep rate to decrease during the primary stage. - A relationship was deduced to predict the creep rate during the primary stage as a function of the steady state creep rate, the steady state internal stress, and the instantaneous internal stress. The predictions of this relationship showed reasonable agreement with the experimental creep rate data. - The steady state creep rate was found to depend on the steady state effective stress by a power law. - The steady state internal stress depends on the structure, the applied stress, and the creep temperature. - As the applied stress increases, the steady state internal stress increases till a saturation value occurs at higher stresses. This saturatiuon value depends on the temperature. - A relation was found to describe the dependence of this saturation value with the exponential of the reciprocal of the absolute temperature. - An empirical relation was applied to predict the steady state internal stress value under different temperatures or stresses. - A power law was found to control the effective stress dependence of the tertiary creep rate at different times in the tertiary stage. - The predictions of these relationships enabled the prediction of the creep rates after stress increments or decrements during primary, secondary, and tertiary stages. |