Fracture Resistance of Cast Stainless Steels after Thermal Aging for up to 10000 Hours
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Electric Power Research Inst. (EPRI), Palo Alto, CA (United States)
This work package, Cast Stainless Steel Aging, aims to achieve a comprehensive scientific understanding on the aging and failure phenomena in cast austenitic stainless steels (CASSs) using holistic experimental and modeling means and to provide a practical and science-based model to predict the degree of thermal degradation of CASS components in extended-term operations. The test materials in the project include four model CASSs (CF3, CF3M, CF8, and CF8M), four EPRI-provided CASSs (CF3, two CF8s, and CF8M), and two reference wrought materials (304L and 316L), which contain a wide variety of d-ferrite contents (2–33%). These materials have been thermally aged at two light water reactor (LWR)-relevant temperatures (290 and 330°C) and at two accelerated-aging temperatures (360 and 400°C) for up to three years. In the fiscal year, the fracture toughness testing and J-R curve calculation were completed for the ten CASS and wrought materials aged up to 10,000 hours. This report is to present the results of the static fracture (J-R) testing for the model and EPRI-provided CASS materials after thermal aging up to 10,000 hours. First, a new aging parameter (A) was defined to present the aging degradation of mechanical properties against the common variable. This definition is used to scale an aging time at a temperature to the effective aging time at a reference temperature based on Arrhenius equation, which is a rate theory equation for thermally activated mechanisms.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 3012294
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL--27923; M2LW-18OR0402152
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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