Inspection of Nickel Alloy Welds: Results from Five Year International Program

Prokofiev, Iouri; Cumblidge, Stephen E; Doctor, Steven R

doi:10.1063/1.3592053

Title: Inspection of Nickel Alloy Welds: Results from Five Year International Program

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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission established and coordinated the international Program for the Inspection of Nickel alloy Components (PINC). The goal of PINC was to evaluate the capabilities of various nondestructive examination (NDE) techniques to detect and characterize primary water stress corrosion cracking (PWSCC) in dissimilar metal welds. Round-robin results showed that a combination of conventional and phased-array ultrasound provide the highest performance for flaw detection and depth sizing in dissimilar metal piping welds. The effective detection of flaws in bottom-mounted instrumentation penetrations by eddy current and ultrasound shows that it may be possible to reliably inspect these components in the field.

Authors:: Prokofiev, Iouri; Cumblidge, Stephen E; Doctor, Steven R

Publication Date:: Thu Jun 23 00:00:00 EDT 2011

Research Org.:: Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1030879

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-75227
401001060; TRN: US201124%%510

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

Resource Type:: Conference

Resource Relation:: Conference: Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation: Volume 30A; Volume 30B. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1335:1055-1062

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; DEFECTS; DETECTION; EDDY CURRENTS; EVALUATION; NICKEL ALLOYS; PERFORMANCE; SIZE; STRESS CORROSION; WATER; PINC; NDE of nickel alloy weldments

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                    Prokofiev, Iouri, Cumblidge, Stephen E, and Doctor, Steven R. Inspection of Nickel Alloy Welds: Results from Five Year International Program.  United States: N. p., 2011. 
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