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Uncertainty Modeling of Fatigue Crack Growth and Probabilistic Life Prediction for Welded Joints of Nuclear Stainless Steel

Welded joints are widely used in the pipeline connection of nuclear power plants. Defects in these joints are an important factor leading to the failure of welded joints. It is critical to study the fatigue crack growth and life prediction methods for the welded joints with defects, to reduce their...

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Autores principales: Chang, Haijun, Shen, Mengling, Yang, Xiaohua, Hou, Junxia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7412069/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32708921
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma13143192
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author Chang, Haijun
Shen, Mengling
Yang, Xiaohua
Hou, Junxia
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description Welded joints are widely used in the pipeline connection of nuclear power plants. Defects in these joints are an important factor leading to the failure of welded joints. It is critical to study the fatigue crack growth and life prediction methods for the welded joints with defects, to reduce their likelihood. In this paper, we present our study of the uncertainty of fatigue crack propagation and probabilistic life prediction for welded joints of nuclear stainless steel. The standard compact tension (CT) specimens were fabricated according to the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standard. Fatigue crack propagation tests with different stress ratios were performed on CT specimens, using the Mei Te Si (MTS) fatigue test system. A fatigue crack propagation rate model considering the uncertainty of material parameters, and based on the Paris formula and crack propagation experimental data, was established. A probabilistic life prediction method based on Monte Carlo simulation was developed. The fatigue crack propagation prediction result of a CT specimen was compared with the actual tested result, to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. Finally, the method was applied to an embedded elliptical crack in welded joints of nuclear stainless steel, to predict the fatigue crack growth life and evaluate the reliability.
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spelling pubmed-74120692020-08-25 Uncertainty Modeling of Fatigue Crack Growth and Probabilistic Life Prediction for Welded Joints of Nuclear Stainless Steel Chang, Haijun Shen, Mengling Yang, Xiaohua Hou, Junxia Materials (Basel) Article Welded joints are widely used in the pipeline connection of nuclear power plants. Defects in these joints are an important factor leading to the failure of welded joints. It is critical to study the fatigue crack growth and life prediction methods for the welded joints with defects, to reduce their likelihood. In this paper, we present our study of the uncertainty of fatigue crack propagation and probabilistic life prediction for welded joints of nuclear stainless steel. The standard compact tension (CT) specimens were fabricated according to the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standard. Fatigue crack propagation tests with different stress ratios were performed on CT specimens, using the Mei Te Si (MTS) fatigue test system. A fatigue crack propagation rate model considering the uncertainty of material parameters, and based on the Paris formula and crack propagation experimental data, was established. A probabilistic life prediction method based on Monte Carlo simulation was developed. The fatigue crack propagation prediction result of a CT specimen was compared with the actual tested result, to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. Finally, the method was applied to an embedded elliptical crack in welded joints of nuclear stainless steel, to predict the fatigue crack growth life and evaluate the reliability. MDPI 2020-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7412069/ /pubmed/32708921 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma13143192 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title Uncertainty Modeling of Fatigue Crack Growth and Probabilistic Life Prediction for Welded Joints of Nuclear Stainless Steel
title_full Uncertainty Modeling of Fatigue Crack Growth and Probabilistic Life Prediction for Welded Joints of Nuclear Stainless Steel
title_fullStr Uncertainty Modeling of Fatigue Crack Growth and Probabilistic Life Prediction for Welded Joints of Nuclear Stainless Steel
title_full_unstemmed Uncertainty Modeling of Fatigue Crack Growth and Probabilistic Life Prediction for Welded Joints of Nuclear Stainless Steel
title_short Uncertainty Modeling of Fatigue Crack Growth and Probabilistic Life Prediction for Welded Joints of Nuclear Stainless Steel
title_sort uncertainty modeling of fatigue crack growth and probabilistic life prediction for welded joints of nuclear stainless steel
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7412069/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32708921
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma13143192
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