Papers by Keyword: Statistical Treatment

Abstract: During the exploitation of the atomic power stations the tubing metal is exposed to the influence of temperatures in the range of 290-320С. It can lead to thermal ageing and to the decrease of the embrittlement resistance. The critical embrittlement temperature is the main value which is needed to calculate the embrittlement resistance of materials. The metal properties degradation is taking into account by introduction of the shift of critical embrittlement temperature. The presented data ensure the prognosis of tube steels properties and shift of the critical embrittlement temperature for 60 years resource.

Abstract: In the structural design of ceramics components especially for graphite materials, it is important to apply the realistic fracture model in the design method so as to reduce the large safety margin. In this study, we proposed the multiaxial strength model by expanding the microstructure based brittle fracture model applicable to both uniaxial tensile and compressive stress conditions. The advantage of the model is a treatment of the microstructural information such as grain size, pore size and pore size distribution. The proposed model was applied to biaxial strength prediction of near isotropic nuclear graphite using grain/pore related microstructure parameters. Predicted results were compared with biaxial strength data, and it was found that the proposed fracture model showed fairly good strength prediction.