Application of subsize specimens in nuclear plant life extension

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:5110527

Rosinski, S T ^[1]; Kumar, A S ^[2]; Cannon, S C ^[3]; Hamilton, M L ^[4]

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1. Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
2. Missouri Univ., Rolla, MO (United States)
3. Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (United States)
4. Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)

The US Department of Energy is sponsoring a research effort through Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Missour-Rolla to test a correlation for the upper shelf energy (USE) values obtained from the impact testing of subsize Charpy V-notch specimens to those obtained from the testing of full size samples. The program involves the impact testing of unirradiated and irradiated full, half, and third size Charpy V-notch specimens. To verify the applicability of the correlation on LWR materials unirradiated and irradiated full, half, and third size Charpy V-notch specimens of a commercial pressure vessel steel (ASTM A533 Grade B) will be tested. This paper will provide details of the program and present results obtained from the application of the developed correlation methodology to the impact testing of the unirradiated full, half, and third size A533 Grade B Charpy V-notch specimens.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5110527
• Report Number(s): SAND-91-0754C; CONF-920146-4; ON: DE92016453
• Resource Relation: Conference: ASTM international symposium on small specimen test techniques and their applications to nuclear reactor vessel thermal annealing and plant life extension, New Orleans, LA (United States), 29-31 Jan 1992
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
REACTOR MATERIALS
CHARPY TEST
STEEL-ASTM-A533-B
CRACK PROPAGATION
CRACKS
FRACTURE MECHANICS
PRESSURE VESSELS
ALLOYS
CARBON STEELS
CONTAINERS
DESTRUCTIVE TESTING
IMPACT TESTS
IRON ALLOYS
IRON BASE ALLOYS
MATERIALS
MATERIALS TESTING
MECHANICAL TESTS
MECHANICS
STEELS
TESTING
220200* - Nuclear Reactor Technology- Components & Accessories
360103 - Metals & Alloys- Mechanical Properties