TY - GEN
T1 - Incefa-plus project
T2 - 29th International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials, METAL 2020
AU - Dundulis, Gintautas
AU - Grybenas, Albertas
AU - Bruchhausen, Matthias
AU - Cicero, Roman
AU - Mottershead, Kevin
AU - Huotilainen, Caitlin
AU - Le Roux, Jean Christophe
AU - Vankeerberghen, Marc
N1 - Funding Information:
INCEFA-PLUS (INcreasing Safety in NPPs by Covering gaps in Environmental Fatigue Assessment) is a project supported by the European Commission HORIZON2020 programme. 16 organisations from across Europe are participating in this project. During this project, new experimental data was obtained which will support the development of improved guidelines for assessment of environmental fatigue damage to ensure safe operation of nuclear power plants.
This project has received funding from the Euratom Research and Training Programme 2014-2018 under Grant Agreement No. 662320.
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PY - 2020/7/27
Y1 - 2020/7/27
N2 - INCEFA-PLUS (INcreasing Safety in NPPs by Covering gaps in Environmental Fatigue Assessment) project characterized environmentally assisted fatigue of stainless steels in light water reactor environments. During this project more than 200 fatigue tests have been carried out in different laboratories across Europe in air and water environment. Most tests were performed on a single batch of 304L, an austenitic stainless steel alloys employed in NPPs. The tests addressed the effects of strain amplitude, hold time periods, material roughness and mean strain/stress on fatigue endurance. A limited number of tests was carried out on other batches of 304L and on X6 CrNiTi 18 10, a Ti stabilised steel used in VVERs. Additionally, activities on the effects of mean stress under strain control, testing at reduced environmental fatigue correction factor Fen, and different applications of hold time as well as biaxial fatigue tests have been carried out. The data obtained has been collected and standardised in an online environmental fatigue database MatDB.
AB - INCEFA-PLUS (INcreasing Safety in NPPs by Covering gaps in Environmental Fatigue Assessment) project characterized environmentally assisted fatigue of stainless steels in light water reactor environments. During this project more than 200 fatigue tests have been carried out in different laboratories across Europe in air and water environment. Most tests were performed on a single batch of 304L, an austenitic stainless steel alloys employed in NPPs. The tests addressed the effects of strain amplitude, hold time periods, material roughness and mean strain/stress on fatigue endurance. A limited number of tests was carried out on other batches of 304L and on X6 CrNiTi 18 10, a Ti stabilised steel used in VVERs. Additionally, activities on the effects of mean stress under strain control, testing at reduced environmental fatigue correction factor Fen, and different applications of hold time as well as biaxial fatigue tests have been carried out. The data obtained has been collected and standardised in an online environmental fatigue database MatDB.
KW - Environment fatigue
KW - Experimental testing fatigue
KW - Steel 304L
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U2 - 10.37904/metal.2020.3496
DO - 10.37904/metal.2020.3496
M3 - Conference article in proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:85096750746
SN - 978-80-87294-97-0
T3 - METAL Conference Proceedings
SP - 410
EP - 415
BT - 29th International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials
PB - Tanger
Y2 - 20 May 2020 through 22 May 2020
ER -