Abstract
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | SMiRT-24, Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology |
| Publisher | International Assn for Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology IASMiRT |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
| MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
| Event | 22nd International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology 2013, SMiRT 22 - San Francisco, United States Duration: 18 Aug 2013 → 23 Aug 2013 Conference number: 23 |
Publication series
| Series | Transactions of the International conference on structural mechanics in reactor technology |
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| ISSN | 0167-563X |
Conference
| Conference | 22nd International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology 2013, SMiRT 22 |
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| Abbreviated title | SMiRT 22 |
| Country | United States |
| City | San Francisco |
| Period | 18/08/13 → 23/08/13 |
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Use of CTOD as crack driving force parameter for low-cycle thermal fatigue. / Kuutti, Juha; Virkkunen, Iikka.
SMiRT-24, Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology. International Assn for Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology IASMiRT , 2017. (Transactions of the International conference on structural mechanics in reactor technology).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review
TY - GEN
T1 - Use of CTOD as crack driving force parameter for low-cycle thermal fatigue
AU - Kuutti, Juha
AU - Virkkunen, Iikka
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Repeated exposure to rapid temperature transients causes gradual damage in material. This is called thermal fatigue. Thermal fatigue is an important degradation mechanism in nuclear power plant components and can limit the plant lifetime where thermal loads are present, e.g., due to turbulent mixing or change in plant operating conditions. The effects of the thermal load cycles include residual stresses, hardening or softening of the material and, finally, crack initiation and growth. Traditionally, thermal fatigue crack growth rates are estimated from the stress intensity factors calculated from uncracked stress distributions and the Paris' law. In the low-cycle regime, the use of weight function based stress intensity factor solutions derived under linear elastic assumptions is questionable due to considerable plasticity. On the other hand, numerical contour integral techniques are ill-suited for thermal cyclic loading. In this work, the use of the crack opening displacement as the crack driving force parameter is evaluated through simulations of a low-cycle thermal fatigue experiments. The use of the crack tip opening displacement avoids the traditional limitations in the numerical evaluation of the J-integral. The unique relationship between the crack opening displacement and J-integral is derived and the crack driving force is used in a crack growth assessment. The results show that the crack driving force calculated from the uncracked stress distributions overestimates the crack driving force significantly (as compared to values calculated from the crack opening displacement). The crack growth rate calculated with the Paris' law is in good agreement with the experimental results, when the crack driving force is computed from the crack opening displacement.
AB - Repeated exposure to rapid temperature transients causes gradual damage in material. This is called thermal fatigue. Thermal fatigue is an important degradation mechanism in nuclear power plant components and can limit the plant lifetime where thermal loads are present, e.g., due to turbulent mixing or change in plant operating conditions. The effects of the thermal load cycles include residual stresses, hardening or softening of the material and, finally, crack initiation and growth. Traditionally, thermal fatigue crack growth rates are estimated from the stress intensity factors calculated from uncracked stress distributions and the Paris' law. In the low-cycle regime, the use of weight function based stress intensity factor solutions derived under linear elastic assumptions is questionable due to considerable plasticity. On the other hand, numerical contour integral techniques are ill-suited for thermal cyclic loading. In this work, the use of the crack opening displacement as the crack driving force parameter is evaluated through simulations of a low-cycle thermal fatigue experiments. The use of the crack tip opening displacement avoids the traditional limitations in the numerical evaluation of the J-integral. The unique relationship between the crack opening displacement and J-integral is derived and the crack driving force is used in a crack growth assessment. The results show that the crack driving force calculated from the uncracked stress distributions overestimates the crack driving force significantly (as compared to values calculated from the crack opening displacement). The crack growth rate calculated with the Paris' law is in good agreement with the experimental results, when the crack driving force is computed from the crack opening displacement.
M3 - Conference article in proceedings
T3 - Transactions of the International conference on structural mechanics in reactor technology
BT - SMiRT-24, Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology
PB - International Assn for Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology IASMiRT
ER -