FRACTESUS Project overview: objectives, organisation and initial findings

Marcos Sánchez; Sergio Cicero; Borja Arroyo; Giovanni Bonny; Helen Swan; Petteri Lappalainen; Eberhard Altstadt; Tom Petit; Florian Obermeier

doi:10.1016/j.prostr.2023.06.034

FRACTESUS Project overview: objectives, organisation and initial findings

Marcos Sánchez^*, Sergio Cicero, Borja Arroyo, Giovanni Bonny, Helen Swan, Petteri Lappalainen, Eberhard Altstadt, Tom Petit, Florian Obermeier

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Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the FRACTESUS project, which is part of the EURATOM work programme 2019-2020, topic NFRP-04: Innovation for Generation II and III reactors. FRACTESUS aims to prove the reliability of determining the fracture toughness of reactor pressure vessel steels using sub-sized specimens, with special emphasis on mini-CT specimens (or 0.16 CT specimens). To achieve this main goal, 22 organisations from Europe, the USA, Canada and Japan launched the project in 2020, completing the first phase of the experimental works in 2022. After providing some background information about the project objectives and organisation, the present work gathers some initial findings and conclusions obtained so far.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	22-29
Journal	Procedia Structural Integrity
Volume	47
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prostr.2023.06.034
Publication status	Published - 2023
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	27th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity, IGF 2023 - Hybrid, Rome, Italy Duration: 1 Feb 2023 → …

Funding

This project has received funding from the Euratom research and training me 2020-2024, under grant agreement No. 900014. The significant contribution of the FRACTESUS project members is also acknowledged. The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the European Commission.

Keywords

FRACTESUS
fracture toughness
master curve
mini-CT specimens
reactor pressure vessel steel

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