Incefa-plus project: Review of the test programme and main results

Gintautas Dundulis; Albertas Grybenas; Matthias Bruchhausen; Roman Cicero; Kevin Mottershead; Caitlin Huotilainen; Jean Christophe Le Roux; Marc Vankeerberghen

doi:10.37904/metal.2020.3496

Incefa-plus project: Review of the test programme and main results

Gintautas Dundulis^*
, Albertas Grybenas
, Matthias Bruchhausen
, Roman Cicero
, Kevin Mottershead
, Caitlin Huotilainen
, Jean Christophe Le Roux
, Marc Vankeerberghen

^*Corresponding author for this work

Lithuanian Energy Institute (LEI)
European Commission
Inesco Ingenieros S.L.
Wood
Électricité de France S.A. (EDF)
Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN)

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	29th International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials
Subtitle of host publication	Conference Proceedings
Publisher	Tanger
Pages	410-415
ISBN (Print)	978-80-87294-97-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.37904/metal.2020.3496
Publication status	Published - 27 Jul 2020
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	29th International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials, METAL 2020 - Virtual, Brno, Czech Republic Duration: 20 May 2020 → 22 May 2020

Publication series

Series	METAL Conference Proceedings
Volume	29
ISSN	2694-9296

Conference

Conference	29th International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials, METAL 2020
Country/Territory	Czech Republic
City	Brno
Period	20/05/20 → 22/05/20

Funding

INCEFA-PLUS (INcreasing Safety in NPPs by Covering gaps in Environmental Fatigue Assessment) is a project supported by the European Commission HORIZON2020 programme. This project has received funding from the Euratom Research and Training Programme 2014-2018 under Grant Agreement No. 662320.

Keywords

Environment fatigue
Experimental testing fatigue
Steel 304L

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Dundulis, G, Grybenas, A, Bruchhausen, M, Cicero, R, Mottershead, K, Huotilainen, C, Le Roux, JC & Vankeerberghen, M 2020, Incefa-plus project: Review of the test programme and main results. in 29th International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials: Conference Proceedings. Tanger, METAL Conference Proceedings, vol. 29, pp. 410-415, 29th International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials, METAL 2020, Brno, Czech Republic, 20/05/20. https://doi.org/10.37904/metal.2020.3496

Incefa-plus project: Review of the test programme and main results. / Dundulis, Gintautas; Grybenas, Albertas; Bruchhausen, Matthias et al.
29th International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials: Conference Proceedings. Tanger, 2020. p. 410-415 (METAL Conference Proceedings, Vol. 29).

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