Recent progress in shear punch testing

Conference · Thu Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1994

OSTI ID:10110747

Hamilton, M L ^[1]; Toloczko, M B; Lucas, G E ^[2]

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1. Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
2. Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)

The shear punch test was developed in response to the needs of the materials development community for small-scale mechanical properties tests. Such tests will be of great importance when a fusion neutron simulation device is built, since such a device is expected to have a limited irradiation volume. The shear punch test blanks a circular disk from a fixed sheet metal specimen, specifically a TEM disk. Load-displacement data generated during the test can be related to uniaxial tensile properties such as yield and ultimate strength. Shear punch and tensile tests were performed at room temperature on a number of unirradiated aluminum, copper, vanadium, and stainless steel alloys and on several irradiated aluminum alloys. Recent results discussed here suggest that the relationship between shear punch strength and tensile strength varies with alloy class, although the relationship determined for the unirradiated condition remains valid for the irradiated aluminum alloys.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 10110747
• Report Number(s): PNL-SA--24801; CONF-9409286--1; ON: DE95005962
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
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42 ENGINEERING
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TENSILE PROPERTIES
VANADIUM