Constitutive model of low carbon alloy steel (LCAS) expandable tubular

Abstract

The downhole expansion process of the expansion tube is the dynamic deformation process of the expansion tube metal material at different temperatures. In this paper, the dynamic tensile test is used to measure the dynamic tensile stress-strain curve of low-carbon alloy steel in the temperature range of 25 – 300 °C. upon analyzed the dynamic tensile test results, with the strain rate factor Z and McCormick physical model, the paper set up low carbon alloy steel constitutive equation of underground temperature field. The calculation results of the Sellars creep equation are compared with the residual stress value after expansion in the finite element analysis of the solid steel pipe expansion to verify the actual application reliability of the steel for the expansion pipe with high expansion rate.

Keywords

• LCAS
• tubular expansion
• stress-strain curves
• temperature
• constitutive model