Download or read book High pressurization rate burst test of hydrided zircaloy 4 fuel cladding at 620 K written by Fumihisa Nagase and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High pressurization rate burst test of hydrided Zircaloy 4 fuel cladding at room temperature written by Fumihisa Nagase and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technical Publications by JAERI Staff in written by Nihon Genshiryoku Kenkyujo and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Experimental and Analytical Investigation of the Mechanical Behavior of High Burnup Zircaloy 4 Fuel Cladding written by Robert S. Daum and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sufficient mechanical ductility of high-burnup Zircaloy-4 fuel cladding is important to prevent large-opening ruptures and significant fuel dispersal during postulated in-reactor and spent-fuel processing accidents. The effect of irradiation, oxidation, and hydriding at high fuel burnup may degrade cladding ductility to the extent that such large ruptures are possible under severe loadings. To understand this susceptibility to failure, this study focused on mechanical testing coupled with detailed finite-element modeling and analyses. Under ring-compression-type loading at room temperature, tensile cracks form within the corrosion-induced oxide layer under elastic loading. The oxide crack then propagates into the cladding wall under additional loading with little to no measurable plastic strain, as confirmed by both experiment and analyses of plastic hoop strain in the ring. For cladding with the oxide removed prior to testing at ≤1 %/s, cracking of the underlying hydride rim comprised of circumferentially oriented hydrides occurs at low plastic hoop strain (≤3 %), whereas the finite-element analysis suggests that the base alloy with a relatively small amount of hydrides appears to fail at higher strain (>8 %). At even higher strain rates (≈400 %/s), cracking within the hydride rim occurs at near-zero ductility, but the base alloy continues to remain highly ductile. These room-temperature results indicate that the hydride rim is sensitive to strain rate, whereas the base alloy is relatively not. With the precipitation of ≈100 % radially oriented hydrides, the cladding exhibits near-zero ductility at room temperature and ≈0.1 %/s. This study suggests that the ring-compression test coupled with finite-element modeling and analysis may be used to estimate crack-initiation strains in irradiated cladding materials with susceptible microstructures and under various deformation rates.
Download or read book Nuclear Science Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High temperature Deformation and Rupture Behavior of Internally pressurized Zircaloy 4 Cladding in Vacuum and Steam Enivronments LOCA Conditions written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The high-temperature diametral expansion and rupture behavior of Zircaloy-4 fuel-cladding tubes have been investigated in vacuum and steam environments under transient-heating conditions that are of interest in hypothetical loss-of-coolant accident situations in light-water reactors. The effects of internal pressure, heating rate, axial constraint, and localized temperature nonuniformities in the cladding on the maximum circumferential strain have been determined for burst temperatures between approximately 650 and 1350°C.
Download or read book Mechanical Properties of Zircaloy 4 PWR Fuel Cladding with Burnup 54 64MWd kgU and Implications for RIA Behavior written by J. Desquines and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The PROMETRA material testing program is a support program related to the study of high burnup fuel rod behavior under Reactivity Initiated Accidents (RIA) and to the interpretation of the CABRI REP-Na RIA test results. Hoop and axial tensile tests have been performed on fresh and irradiated Zircaloy-4 cladding alloy first at CEA Grenoble hot labs and now at CEA Saclay in order to assess the cladding mechanical behavior during RIA transients. Efforts have been continuously carried out in order to improve the prototipicallity of the tests for RIA studies involving new specimens and new testing techniques. The corrosion level of irradiated specimens reached up to 130 ?m of oxide layer thickness. The influence of in-pile oxide layer spallation has also been addressed. High strain-rate material properties of irradiated Zircaloy-4 and the consequences of hydride embrittlement can be derived from the PROMETRA program.
Download or read book A Comparison of Transient Heating Burst Test Results of Unirradiated and Irradiated Zircaloy 4 Fuel Rod Cladding written by LM. Lowry and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission supported an experimental program to study the mechanical properties of both unirradiated and irradiated fuel rod cladding. The program was designed to produce a mechanical property data base for use in developing modeling codes which could then be used to predict the performance of Zircaloy-4 clad fuel rods under various reactor loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) conditions. Transient-heating burst tests were conducted at Argonne National Laboratory, Battelle Columbus Laboratories, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory as part of that program. A brief description of the testing methods, specimens, equipment, and procedures illustrates the similarities and differences in tests conducted at each laboratory. The data obtained from tests conducted in steam and utilizing test specimens with internal heaters or specimens containing alumina mandrels or pellets were compared for heating rates of 5, 28, and 55 C/sec. Both burst pressure and circumferential failure strain data versus burst temperature were plotted and compared in the range of 650 to 1250 C. It was found that testing methods, specimen oxidation layer, and irradiation effected the transient-heating burst test data.
Download or read book Impulse burst testing on Zircaloy 4 pressure tube written by E. A. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Metallurgy of Zirconium written by Benjamin Lustman and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributing Authors Include H. Etherington, R. C. Dalzell, D. W. Lillie And Others.
Download or read book Energy Research Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zirconium in Nuclear Applications written by J. H. Schemel and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1974 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Status of Fast Reactor Research and Technology Development written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on a recommendation from the Technical Working Group on Fast Reactors, this publication is a regular update of previous publications on fast reactor technology. The publication provides comprehensive and detailed information on the technology of fast neutron reactors. The focus is on practical issues that are useful to engineers, scientists, managers, university students and professors. The main issues of discussion are experience in design, construction, operation and decommissioning, various areas of research and development, engineering, safety and national strategies, and public acceptance of fast reactors. In the summary the reader will find national strategies, international initiatives on innovative (i.e. Generation IV) systems and an assessment of public acceptance as related to fast reactors."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Download or read book Corrosion Control written by S. Bradford and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings undoubtedly became aware of corrosion just after they made their first metals. These people probably began to control corrosion very so on after that by trying to keep metal away from corrosive environments. "Bring your tools in out of the rain" and "Clean the blood off your sword right after battle" would have been early maxims. Now that the mechanisms of corrosion are better understood, more techniques have been developed to control it. My corrosion experience extends over 10 years in industry and research and over 20 years teaching corrosion courses to university engineering students and industrial consulting. During that time I have developed an approach to corrosion that has successfully trained over 1500 engineers. This book treats corrosion and high-temperature oxidation separately. Corrosion is divided into three groups: (1) chemical dissolution including uniform attack, (2) electrochemical corrosion from either metallurgicalor environmental cells, and (3) corrosive-mechanical interactions. It seems more logical to group corrosion according to mechanisms than to arbitrarily separate them into 8 or 20 different types of corrosion as if they were unrelated. University students and industry personnel alike generally are afraid of chemistry and consequently approach corrosion theory very hesitantly. In this text the electrochemical reactions responsible for corrosion are summed up in only five simple half-cell reactions. When these are combined on a polarization diagram, which is explained in detail, the electrochemical pro cesses become obvious.
Download or read book Materials Handbook written by François Cardarelli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-03-19 with total page 1365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and practical book provides quick and easy access to data on the physical and chemical properties of all classes of materials. The second edition has been much expanded to include whole new families of materials while many of the existing families are broadened and refined with new material and up-to-date information. Particular emphasis is placed on the properties of common industrial materials in each class. Detailed appendices provide additional information, and careful indexing and a tabular format make the data quickly accessible. This book is an essential tool for any practitioner or academic working in materials or in engineering.
Download or read book Structure Property Relations in Nonferrous Metals written by Alan Russell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This junior/senior textbook presents fundamental concepts ofstructure property relations and a description of how theseconcpets apply to every metallic element except iron. Part One of the book describes general concepts of crystalstructure, microstructure and related factors on the mechanical,thermal, magnetic and electronic properties of nonferrous metals,intermetallic compounds and metal matrix composites. Part Two discusses all the nonferrous metallic elements from twoperspectives: First it explains how the concepts presented in PartOne define the properties of a particular metallic element and itsalloys. Second is a description of the major engineering uses ofeach metal. This section features sidebar pieces describingparticular physical property oddities, engineering applications andcase studies. An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutionsto all the problems in the book is available from the Wileyeditorial department. An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all theproblems in the book is available from the Wiley editorialdepartment.
Download or read book Nuclear Fuel Safety Criteria written by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents brief descriptions of 20 fuel-related safety criteria along with both the rationale for having such criteria and possible new design and operational issues which could have an effect on them.
