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Multiaxial Creep-Fatigue and Creep-Ratcheting Failures of Grade 91 and Haynes 230 Alloys Toward Addressing Design Issues of Gen IV Nuclear Power Plants

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1178428· OSTI ID:1178428
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States); Nuclear Energy University Programs
  2. Penn State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
  3. Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

The proposed research will develop systematic sets of uniaxial and multiaxial experimental data at a very high temperature (850-950°C) for Alloy 617. The loading histories to be prescribed in the experiments will induce creep-fatigue and creep-ratcheting failure mechanisms. These experimental responses will be scrutinized in order to quantify the influences of temperature and creep on fatigue and ratcheting failures. A unified constitutive model (UCM) will be developed and validated against these experimental responses. The improved UCM will be incorporated into the widely used finite element commercial software packages ANSYS. The modified ANSYS will be validated so that it can be used for evaluating the very high temperature ASME-NH design-by-analysis methodology for Alloy 617 and thereby addressing the ASME-NH design code issues.

Research Organization:
North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE). Nuclear Energy University Programs (NEUP)
DOE Contract Number:
AC07-05ID14517
OSTI ID:
1178428
Report Number(s):
DOE/NEUP--09-832; 09-832
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English