Effects of weld residual stresses on crack-opening area analysis of pipes for LBB applications
- Battelle, Columbus, OH (United States)
- Nuclear Electric, Gloucester (United Kingdom)
This paper summarizes four different studies undertaken to evaluate the effects of weld residual stresses on the crack-opening behavior of a circumferential through-wall crack in the center of a girth weld. The effect of weld residual stress on the crack-opening-area and leak-rate analyses of a pipe is not well understood. There are no simple analyses to account for these effects, and therefore, they are frequently neglected. The four studies involved the following efforts: (1) full-field thermoplastic finite element residual stress analyses of a crack in the center of a girth weld; (2) a comparison of the crack-opening displacements from a full-field thermoplastic residual stress analysis with a crack-face pressure elastic stress analysis to determine the residual stress effects on the crack-opening displacements; (3) the effects of hydrostatic testing on the residual stresses and the resulting crack-opening displacement; and (4) the effect of residual stresses on crack-opening displacement with different normal operating stresses.
- OSTI ID:
- 403193
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960706-; ISBN 0-7918-1774-1; TRN: 97:000153
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) pressure vessels and piping conference, Montreal (Canada), 21-26 Jul 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Residual stresses in design, fabrication, assessment and repair. PVP-Volume 327; Warke, R.W. [ed.] [Edison Welding Inst., Columbus, OH (United States)]; Dong, P. [ed.] [Battelle Memorial Inst., Columbus, OH (United States)]; Dermenjian, A. [ed.] [Sargent and Lundy, Chicago, IL (United States)]; PB: 207 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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