The effect of thermal aging on fracture properties of a narrow-gap Alloy 52 dissimilar metal weld

Sebastian Lindqvist; Zaiqing Que; Pekka Nevasmaa; Noora Hytönen

doi:10.1016/j.engfracmech.2023.109056

The effect of thermal aging on fracture properties of a narrow-gap Alloy 52 dissimilar metal weld

Sebastian Lindqvist^*
, Zaiqing Que
, Pekka Nevasmaa
, Noora Hytönen

^*Corresponding author for this work

BA4509 Advanced materials for nuclear energy

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Abstract

In nuclear power plants, dissimilar metal welds belong to safety class 1. The effect of thermal aging at 400 °C up to 15 000 h on ductile-to-brittle transition (DBT) region was investigated for an Alloy 52 dissimilar metal weld (DMW). The cracks and the notches were placed close to the fusion boundary between the low-alloy steel (LAS) and the weld metal. In previous work for DMWs, the shifts in different DBT temperatures have not been investigated, including reference temperature T0, impact toughness-based T28J and reference temperature for arrest toughness, TKIa. The results show that the T0 reference temperature does not change significantly with aging time, only 10 °C, but the shift in T28J is 49 °C after 15 000 h. The shift in TKIa is 35 °C. The results indicate that the aging mechanism affects more the crack propagation and arrest properties than brittle fracture initiation.

Original language	English
Article number	109056
Journal	Engineering Fracture Mechanics
Volume	281
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2023.109056
Publication status	Published - 28 Mar 2023
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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Arrest toughness
DMW
Fracture toughness
T0
Thermal aging

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