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Heavy-Section Steel Technology Program. Quarterly progress report, April-June 1982. [PWR; BWR]

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6587572
The three-dimensional finite-element program for elastic-plastic fracture analysis was adapted to the analysis of stainless-steel-clad structures under combined pressure and thermal-shock loads. Subcontractors continued their support of thermal-shock experiments and investigation of fracture mode transitions and crack-arrest testing. Statistical analyses of irradiated Charpy impact specimens were completed, and plans wer made for two new irradiation studies, high-copper welds and stainless steel cladding. Further overcooling accident analyses were made, and preliminary studies of the next thermal-shock experiments were conducted. Preparations for the test of intermediate vessel V-8A continued, objectives were established for three pressurized-thermal-shock (PTS) tests, and procurement activities for the PTS test facility were initiated. Five flawed plates were tested in the stainless steel cladding investigations.
Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-26
OSTI ID:
6587572
Report Number(s):
NUREG/CR-2751-Vol.2; ORNL/TM-8369-Vol.1; ON: DE83002146
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English