Issue Section:
Technical Papers
Keywords:
boilers, pressure vessels, ductility, fracture toughness, brittle fracture, structural engineering computing, stress-strain relations, fatigue testing, elastoplasticity, safety
Topics:
Brittle fracture, Fracture toughness, Pressure vessels, Stress, Boilers, Temperature, Fracture (Materials), ASME Standards
1.
ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Rules for Construction of Unfired Pressure Vessels, Section VIII, Division 1, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, 1998.
2.
ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Rules of Construction of Nuclear Power Plant Components, Section III, Division 1, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, 1998.
3.
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,
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,
W. D.
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Landerman
,
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,
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Basis and Development of Toughness Requirements for Class 2, Class 3, Containment and Component Support Materials in Section III of the ASME Code
,”
ASME J. Pressure Vessel Technol.
,
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3
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4.
Regulatory Guide 7.11, “Fracture Toughness Criteria for Ferritic Steel Shipping Cask Containment Vessels with a Maximum Wall Thickness of Four Inches (0.1 m),” U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, June 1991.
5.
Regulatory Guide 7.12, “Fracture Toughness Criteria of Base Material for Ferritic Steel Shipping Cask Containment Vessels With A Wall Thickness Greater Than 4 Inches (0.1 m) But Not Exceeding 12 Inches (0.3 m),” U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, June 1991.
6.
ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Rules of Construction of Nuclear Power Plant Components, Section III, Division 3, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, 1998.
7.
ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Rules for Inservice Inspection of Nuclear Power Plant Components, Section XI, Division 1, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, 1995.
8.
Wullaert, R., Oldfield, W., and Server, W., “Fracture Toughness Data for Ferritic Pressure Vessel Materials,” EPRI Report No. NP-121, Effects Technology, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA, Apr. 1976.
9.
Arai, T., Saegusa, T., Yagawa, G., Urabe, N., and Nickell, R., “Determination of Lower-Bound Fracture Toughness for Heavy-Section Ductile Cast Iron (DCI) and Estimations by Small Specimen Test,” Fracture Mechanics: Twenty-Fourth Symposium, ASTM STP 1207, eds., J. D. Landes, D. E. McCabe, and J. A. M. Boulet, ASTM, Philadelphia, pp. 355–368, 1994.
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