Reactor Pressure Vessel Integrity Assessment |
Introduction / Surender Bhandari ; Dominique Moinereau |
PWR Vessel Life Management: French Approach for Integrity Assessment and Maintenance Strategy / G. Bezdikian ; D. Moinereau ; C. Faidy ; F. Ternon-Morin ; F. Champigny |
Evaluation of Constraint Methodologies Applied to a Shallow-Flaw Cruciform Bend Specimen Tested Under Biaxial Loading Conditions / B. Richard Bass ; Wallace J. McAfee ; Paul T. Williams ; William E. Pennell |
Reassessment of French Reactor Pressure Vessel Integrity / Y. Meziere ; A. Heuze ; J. Vagner |
Application of R6 Constraint Methods Using Weight Functions for T-Stress / Dennis G. Hooton ; Andrew H. Sherry ; David J. Sanderson ; Robert A. Ainsworth |
Some Recent Developments in French Reactor Pressure Vessel Structural Integrity Assessment / C. Messelier-Gouze ; A. Pellissier-Tanon ; D. Guichard |
A Sensitivity Study of the Pretest Analysis of the NESC-1 Spinning Cylinder Experiment / Iradj Sattari-Far ; Lars Dahlberg |
Fracture Assessment of Reactor Pressure Vessels Under Pressurised Thermal Shock / N. K. Mukhopadhyay ; J. Chattopadhyay ; T. V. Pavan Kumar ; B. K. Dutta ; H. S. Kushwaha |
The Application of Local Approach to Predict the Outcome of the NESC Experiment / A. H. Sherry ; D. W. Beardsmore ; D. P. G. Lidbury ; M. A. Sheikh ; I. C. Howard |
Piping and Elbows and Materials, Welding and Other Aspects |
Analysis of a Bending Test on a Full-Scale PWR Hot Leg Elbow Containing a Surface Crack / Patrick Le Delliou ; Peter Julisch ; Karl Hippelein ; Georges Bezdikian |
Stress Intensity Factors for Internal Circumferential Cracks in Tubes Over a Wide Range of Radius Over Thickness Ratios / S. Chapuliot ; M. H. Lacire ; P. Le Delliou |
Assessment of Integrity of Piping of 500MW PHWR, Using R-6 Method / Rohit Rastogi ; Vivek Bhasin |
Experimental and Numerical Study on the Behavior of Cracked Branch Pipes / D. Moulin |
Fracture Analysis of 500 MWe Indian PHWR PHT Piping With Throughwall Cracks |
Computer Simulation of Mesoscopic Fracture Process Caused by Multiple Intergranular Cracks in Degrading Materials / Yuji Nakasone ; Takeshi Miyama |
Fracture Mechanics Investigation of Root Formation and Shrinkage Zone During Welding / Stefan Fricke ; Elisabeth Keim ; Jurgen Schmidt |
A New Simplified Method to Model Large Ductile Tearing Crack Applicable to Specimens and Structures / S. Marie |
Numerical Fracture Mechanics of All-Steel Gas Cylinders / Bin Su ; Gouri S. Bhuyan |
Elevated Temperature Design Methods |
Advancement of High-Temperature Structural Design Method for Fast Reactor Components, Part I: Creep-Fatigue Damage Evaluation Method for 316FR / Marina B. Ruggles ; T. Shimakawa ; Yukio Takahashi |
Advancement of High-Temperature Structural Design Method for Fast Reactor Components, Part II: Inelastic Constitutive Model for 316FR |
Prediction of Cyclic Stress Relaxation for 1CrMoVTiB / F. V. Ellis ; Sebastian Tordonato ; R. Viswanathan |
Automated Identification of Material Constants in Inelastic Constitutive Equations by Continuous Evolutionary Algorithm and Massively Parallel Processors / Nobuchika Kawasaki ; Sunil Felix ; Naoto Kasahara ; Tomonari Furukawa ; Shinobu Yoshimura ; Genki Yagawa |
Development of Fatigue and Creep Crack Propagation Law for 316FR Stainless Steel in Consideration of FBR Operating Condition / Yasunari Nakayama ; Naoki Miura ; Takashi Shimakawa ; Shingo Date ; Yuji Toya |
An Alternate Approach to Evaluation of Creep-Fatigue Damage for High Temperature Structural Design Criteria / Robert I. Jetter |
Development of Structural Integrity Assessment Guideline for FBR Components |
Evaluation of Creep-Fatigue Design Methods by Structural Failure Tests Under Thermal Loads--Stepped Hollow Cylinder Model With a Shoulder Fillet / Hiroyuki Koto ; Hitoshi Kaguchi |
High Temperature Damage Evaluation Method for 316FR Steel and Its Application to Large Structural Component Tests / Shigeo Sakurai ; Yoshimi Satou ; Nobuhiro Isobe |
Ductile Fracture Behavior of Stainless Steel Cracked Pipes at High Temperature |
Creep Model for LWR Lower Head Under Core Melting Accidents / Kwang J. Jeong ; Dong C. Lim ; II S. Hwang |
Creep-Fatigue Tests and Analyses for Y-piece Models Under Thermal Stress / Tatsuaki Sawai |
The Evaluation Method of Creep-fatigue Damage of 316FR Stainless Steel Welded Joint / Tomomi Otani ; Hiroshi Wada ; Terutaka Fujioka |
Evaluation of Creep-Fatigue Life of 316FR Cylinder Subjected to Cyclic Movement of Axial Temperature Distribution / Yasuharu Chuman ; Masafumi Yamauchi |
Crack Initiation and Propagation at Structural Discontinuities Under Thermal Transient / T. Uno ; H. Takahashi ; T. Kawakami ; Y. Takahashi |
Fracture Mechanics Analysis |
Compressive Thermal Yielding Leading to Hydrogen Cracking in a Fired Cannon / Kenneth K. Yoon ; Shiro Kubo ; John H. Underwood ; Anthony P. Parker ; Paul J. Cote ; Samuel Sopok |
Stress Intensity Factor of an Arbitrarily Located Circumferential Crack in Axisymmetrically Loaded Cylinders / Toshiyuki Meshii ; Katsuhiko Watanabe |
ISO Test Method and Results on Sustained-Load-Cracking Resistance of Aluminum Cylinders / Mahendra D. Rana |
Effect of Stress Frequency on Fatigue Surface Crack Propagation in Stainless Steel at High Temperature / Jianqiao Chen ; Shigeo Takezono ; Katsumi Tao ; Naoki Hotta |
Elastic Plastic Fracture Mechanics Behavior of a Part-Through Crack in Nuclear Piping / J. H. Kim ; I. S. Hwang |
Assessment of Actual Fatigue Usage Using an On-Line Monitoring System / Paul Hirschberg ; David A. Gerber |
Multiaxial Low Cycle Fatigue and Crack Propagation of Mod.9Cr-1Mo Steel at High Temperature / Noritake Hiyoshi ; Masao Sakane |
Fatigue Life Investigation Under Biaxial-Tensile Stress State / A. Zouani ; T. Bui-Quoc ; M. Bernard |
Simulation-Based Fatigue Life Prediction of Three-Dimensional Cracks in Residual Stress Fields / Masahiro Tsuji ; Kiyotsuga Ohji |
Molecular Dynamic Simulation of Near-Threshold Fatigue Crack Propagation / Masashige Yoshikawa |
Causes and Behavior of Boiler Header Stubweld Cracking / Manuchehr Shirmohamadi ; Victor Wang ; Patrick Kwon |
Estimation of Stress Concentration at Shallow Notches Under Creep Conditions Based on the Small-Scale and Large-Scale Creep Concepts / Hidenori Kinugasa ; Kiyotsugu Ohji |
Positive Displacement Pump Valve Seat and Fluid Cylinder Fatigue Evaluation / Wayne W. H. Chen ; T. Y. Wang |
Leak Before Break Criteria Applied to Main Steam Line / Soon M. Lee ; Kye K. Jee ; In S. Ra ; In D. Cho |
Student Papers |
Damage Mechanics Considerations for Life Extension of High Temperature Components / Xiang Lin ; Jian-Ming Gong ; Shan-Tung Tu |
Initial Bending Fatigue Testing of PVC Pipe Joints / M. Cavak ; R. J. Scavuzzo ; M. Cakmak ; T. S. Srivatsan |
Author Index |
Reactor Pressure Vessel Integrity Assessment |
Introduction / Surender Bhandari ; Dominique Moinereau |
PWR Vessel Life Management: French Approach for Integrity Assessment and Maintenance Strategy / G. Bezdikian ; D. Moinereau ; C. Faidy ; F. Ternon-Morin ; F. Champigny |