Round robin comparison of tensile results on GlidCop Al25
- Pacific Northwest National Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
- D.V. Efremov Inst. of Electro-Physical Apparatus, St. Petersburg (Russian Federation)
- V.I. Lenin Research Inst. of Atomic Reactors, Dimitrovgrad (Russian Federation)
A round robin comparison of the tensile properties of GlidCop{trademark} Al25 oxide dispersion strengthened copper was initiated between collaborating laboratories to evaluate the test and analysis procedures used in the irradiation experiments in SRIAR in Dimitrovgrad. The tests were conducted using the same tensile specimen geometry as used in previous irradiation experiments, with tests at each laboratory being conducted in air or vacuum at 25, 150, and 300 C at a strain rate of 3 {times} 10{sup {minus}4} s{sup {minus}1}. The strength of the GlidCop Al25 decreased as the test temperature increased, with no observable effect of testing in air versus vacuum on the yield and ultimate strengths. The uniform elongation decreased by almost a factor of 3 when the test temperature was raised from room temperature to 300 C, but the total elongation remained roughly constant over the range of test temperatures. Any effect of testing in air on the ductility may have been masked by the scatter introduced into the results because each laboratory tested the specimens in a different grip setup. In light of this, the results of the round robin tests demonstrated that the test and analysis procedures produced essentially the same values for tensile yield and ultimate, but significant variability was present in both the uniform and total elongation measurements due to the gripping technique.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 330629
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ER-0313/24; ON: DE98007433; TRN: 99:005084
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Sep 1998; Related Information: Is Part Of Fusion materials semiannual progress report for the period ending June 30, 1998; Burn, G. [ed.] [comp.]; PB: 314 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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