Developing Fracture Assessment Methods for Fusion Reactor Materials with Small Specimens / GR. Odette, K. Edsinger, GE. Lucas, E. Donahue
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- Small Specimen Test Techniques (1997 : New Orleans, Louisiana)
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- Donahue, E., Edsinger, K., Lucas, GE., Odette, GR., American Society for Testing and Materials, and ASTM International
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- Design and operation of fusion reactors will require a temperature-dependent effective toughness [Ke(T)] data base. Effective toughness is a function of intrinsic metallurgical/microstructural factors, degraded by irradiation, and extrinsic factors, such as size and geometry. Standard fracture mechanics is inadequate, since the presumption of geometrically independent crack tip stress/strain fields does not apply to either small specimens or in thin-walled structures with shallow cracks. More general approaches to measuring and applying Ke(T) data are described for cleavage initiation in steels and vanadium alloys. The critical stress-critical area (?*/A*) mechanism of cleavage initiation is demonstrated using a confocal microscopy/fracture reconstruction method that can also directly measure Ke. The ?*/A* model is combined with finite element method (FEM) simulations of crack tip fields to: a) predict Ke(T) for F-82H as a function of size; and b) directly adjust Ke(T) data to a common test geometry. A simpler master curve-(temperature) shift method is also described. Changes in yield stress due to irradiation or strain rates can be related to the shifts. Indeed, tensile properties as a function of temperature, strain rate and alloy condition are required by all assessment methods. Physically-based small specimen methods will reduce enormously what would otherwise be a prohibitive amount of testing.
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- Volume 1998, Issue 1329 (January 1998)
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