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Incefa-plus project: Review of the test programme and main results

  • Gintautas Dundulis
  • , Albertas Grybenas
  • , Matthias Bruchhausen
  • , Roman Cicero
  • , Kevin Mottershead
  • , Caitlin Huotilainen
  • , Jean Christophe Le Roux
  • , Marc Vankeerberghen

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Abstract

INCEFA-PLUS (INcreasing Safety in NPPs by Covering gaps in Environmental Fatigue Assessment) project characterized environmentally assisted fatigue of stainless steels in light water reactor environments. During this project more than 200 fatigue tests have been carried out in different laboratories across Europe in air and water environment. Most tests were performed on a single batch of 304L, an austenitic stainless steel alloys employed in NPPs. The tests addressed the effects of strain amplitude, hold time periods, material roughness and mean strain/stress on fatigue endurance. A limited number of tests was carried out on other batches of 304L and on X6 CrNiTi 18 10, a Ti stabilised steel used in VVERs. Additionally, activities on the effects of mean stress under strain control, testing at reduced environmental fatigue correction factor Fen, and different applications of hold time as well as biaxial fatigue tests have been carried out. The data obtained has been collected and standardised in an online environmental fatigue database MatDB.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMETAL 2020 - 29th International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials, Conference Proceedings
PublisherTANGER Ltd.
Pages410-415
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9788087294970
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event29th International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials, METAL 2020 - Brno, Czech Republic
Duration: May 20 2020May 22 2020

Publication series

NameMETAL 2020 - 29th International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials, Conference Proceedings

Conference

Conference29th International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials, METAL 2020
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityBrno
Period05/20/2005/22/20

Keywords

  • Environment fatigue
  • Experimental testing fatigue
  • Steel 304L

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