Technical basis for the extension of ASME Code Case N-494 for assessment of austenitic piping
- Babcock and Wilcox, Alliance, OH (United States)
In 1990, the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code for Nuclear Components approved Code Case N-494 as an alternative procedure for evaluating flaws in light water reactor (LWR) ferritic piping. The approach is an alternate to Appendix H of the ASME Code and allows the user to remove some unnecessary conservatism in the existing procedure by allowing the use of pipe specific material properties. The Code case is an implementation of the methodology of the deformation plasticity failure assessment diagram (DPFAD). The key ingredient in the application of DPFAD is that the material stress-strain curve must be in the format of a simple power law hardening stress-strain curve such as the Ramberg-Osgood (R-O) model. Ferritic materials can be accurately fit by the R-O model and, therefore, it was natural to use the DPFAD methodology for the assessment of LWR ferritic piping. An extension of Code Case N-494 to austenitic piping required a modification of the existing DPFAD methodology. The modified DPFAD approach, coined piecewise failure assessment diagram (PWFAD), extended an approximate engineering approach proposed by Ainsworth in order to consider materials whose stress-strain behavior cannot be fit to the R-O model. The Code Case N-494 approach was revised using the PWFAD procedure in the same manner as in the development of the original N-494 approach for ferritic materials.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 403314
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Vol. 118, Issue 4; Other Information: DN: Paper presented at the Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, Honolulu, HI (US), July 23--27, 1995; PBD: Nov 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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