Effects of Crack Depth, Specimen Size, and Out-of-Plane Stress on the Fracture Toughness of Reactor Vessel Steels
Affiliation:
1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 2. Westinghouse Savannah River Technology Center, Aiken, SC 29802
Abstract
Cleavage fracture toughness values for A533-B reactor pressure vessel (RPV) steel at -40°C obtained from test programs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and University of Kansas (KU) are interpreted using the J-A2 analytical model. The KU test data are from smaller SENB specimens with a/w = 0.1 and 0.5. The ORNL test data are from 1) larger SENB specimens with a/w = 0.1 and 0.5, and 2) a six-point-bend cruciform specimen under either uniaxial or bi-axial loads. The analytical model is based on the critical stress criterion and takes into consideration the constraint effect using the second parameter A2 in addition to the generally accepted loading parameter J. It is demonstrated that the effects of crack depth (shallow versus deep), specimen size (small versus large), and loading type (uniaxial versus biaxial) on the fracture toughness from the test programs can be interpreted and predicted.
Publisher
ASME International
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
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