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Limit Loads for Circumferential Cracks in the Steam Generator Tube under Combined Pressure and Bending Loads

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Steam generator in a nuclear power plant is huge heat exchanger that transfers heat from reactor to make steam to drive turbine-generator. Failure of the steam generator tubes can result in the release of fission products to the secondary side. Therefore, accurate integrity assessment of the cracked steam generator tubes is of great importance for maintaining the safety of the nuclear power plant. This paper provides limit loads for circumferential through-wall cracks in steam generator tubes under combined internal pressure and bending loads. Such limit loads are developed on the basis of three dimensional finite element analyses assuming elastic-perfectly plastic material behavior. As for the crack location, both the top of the tubesheet and U-bend regions are considered. The analysis results can be directly applied to the practical integrity assessment of cracked steam generator tubes, because the comparison between experimental data and FE results shows a very good agreement.

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Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 345-346)

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1357-1360

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https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.345-346.1357

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August 2007

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Hyun Su Kim, Tae Eun Jin, Hong Deok Kim, Han Sub Chung, Yoon Suk Chang, Young Jin Kim

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Elastic-Plastic Behaviour, Limit Load, Steam Generator Tube, Top of Tubesheet, Trough-Wall Crack, U-Bend

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