Strain-based plastic instability acceptance criteria for ferritic steel safety class 1 nuclear components under level D service loads

This paper proposes strain-based acceptance criteria for assessing plastic instability of the safety class 1 nuclear components made of ferritic steel during level D service loads. The strain-based criteria were proposed with two approaches: (1) a section average approach and (2) a critical location...

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Main Authors: Ji-Su Kim, Han-Sang Lee, Jong-Sung Kim, Yun-Jae Kim, Jin-Won Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-04-01
Series:Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1738573315000194