Development of ASME Division 5 Code proposal on temperature limits for simplified design methods
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
This report establishes proposed upper temperature limits for the ASME BP&V Code Section III, Division 5, Nonmandatory Appendix HBB-T design by elastic analysis provisions for bounding ratcheting strain and creep-fatigue damage in Class A high temperature nuclear reactor components. Limitations on the use of these design options are required because the design by elastic analysis methods rely on bounding theories that assume a non-unified, decoupled model of creep-plasticity. However, at high temperatures creep and plastic deformation become coupled and bounding theorems relying a decoupled material response may fail. The report describes a method for selecting appropriate upper temperature limits, demonstrates directly through a comparison to full inelastic simulations that the existing Code provisions can be nonconservative at high temperatures, and develops the requisite Code language required to implement the temperature limits in Section III, Division 5.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 1480531
- Report Number(s):
- ANL-ART-132; 146672; TRN: US1902662
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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