| Revista: | Materials research |
| Base de datos: | PERIÓDICA |
| Número de sistema: | 000312805 |
| ISSN: | 1516-1439 |
| Autors: | Gomes, Paulo de Tarso Vida1 Cruz, Julio Ricardo Barreto Rabelo, Emerson Giovani Mattar-Neto, Miguel2 |
| Institucions: | 1Comissao Nacional de Energia Nuclear, Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Brasil 2Comissao Nacional de Energia Nuclear, Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares, Sao Paulo. Brasil |
| Any: | 2005 |
| Període: | Ene-Mar |
| Volum: | 8 |
| Número: | 1 |
| Paginació: | 57-63 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Tipo de documento: | Nota breve o noticia |
| Enfoque: | Experimental |
| Resumen en inglés | In a PWR nuclear power plant, the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) contains the fuel assemblies and reactor vessels internals and keeps the coolant at high temperature and high pressure during normal operation. The RPV integrity must be assured all along its useful life to protect the general public against a significant radiation liberation damage. One of the critical issues relative to the VPR structural integrity refers to the pressurized thermal shock (PTS) accident evaluation. To better understand the effects of this kind of event, a PTS experiment has been planned using an RPV prototype. The RPV material fracture behavior characterization in the ductile-brittle transition region represents one of the most important aspects of the structural assessment process of RPV's under PTS. This work presents the results of fracture toughness tests carried out to characterize the RPV prototype material behavior. The test data includes Charpy energy curves, T0 reference temperatures for definition of master curves, and fracture surfaces observed in electronic microscope. The results are given for the vessel steel in the "as received" and normalized conditions. This way, the influence of the normalizing treatment on the fracture properties of the steel could be evaluated |
| Disciplines | Ingeniería |
| Paraules clau: | Ingeniería de materiales, Ingeniería industrial, Ingeniería mecánica, Recipientes de presión, Energía nuclear, Acero, Propiedades mecánicas, Resistencia, Fracturas |
| Keyword: | Engineering, Industrial engineering, Materials engineering, Mechanical engineering, Pressure vessels, Nuclear energy, Steel, Mechanical properties, Resistance, Fractures |
| Text complet: | Texto completo (Ver HTML) |
