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Effect of Radiation Damage on Bwr Core-Shroud Cracking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Jun Kwon  and
Arthur T. Motta
Jun Kwon
Affiliation:
Dept. of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
Arthur T. Motta
Affiliation:
Dept. of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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Abstract

A model is presented that estimates the effect of radiation damage on stress corrosion cracking (SCC), resulting from microstructural evolution induced by irradiation. The model is based on the Ford-Andresen film-rupture and slip-dissolution model and on the observation that the crack propagation rate increases as the material hardens. The model relates the neutron and gamma exposure to the irradiation hardening and consequent increase in the crack tip strain rate. A chemical rate theory model was employed to describe the evolution of microstructure in stainless steel leading to radiation hardening. The increase in yield stress can be correlated to an increase in the crack tip strain rate, and thus to SCC behavior. This approach was used to evaluate the effects of irradiation hardening on core shroud cracking. The results show that hardening can have a substantial effect on core shroud cracking.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 540: Symposium N / Microstructural Processes in Irradiated Materials , 1998 , 483
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1999

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