... nondestructive testing nuclear power stations There is a growing global interest in the longer term operation (LTO) of the existing fleet of nuclear power plants (NPPs). This requires new and improved approaches to plant-life management as licensees seek to operate beyond the initial license periods...

... 01 12 2011 condition monitoring failure analysis fatigue Green's function methods materials properties nuclear power stations remaining life assessment nuclear power plants nonlinear differential equations fatigue online monitoring artificial parameter method...

... 2011 19 10 2011 19 10 2011 automatic optical inspection crack detection design engineering finite element analysis gradient methods nuclear power stations thermal stress cracking thickness measurement walls thermal fatigue thermal stress crack propagation crack network...

...R. I. Jetter; T.-L. Sham; R. W. Swindeman 23 08 2011 23 08 2011 creep nuclear power stations pressure vessels We are grateful to Dr. Richard N. Wright of the Idaho National Laboratory for the support of this work. We thank Mr. Masanori Ando of the Japan Atomic Energy...

... 2011 creep fatigue finite element analysis heat exchangers hydrogen production nuclear power stations process heat exchanger creep-fatigue damage Alloy 617 draft code case for Alloy 617 high temperature design code The generation of hydrogen using nuclear energy has...

... economy. 06 05 2010 14 07 2010 11 05 2011 11 05 2011 economics energy resources fission fission reactor coolants nuclear fusion nuclear power stations recycling uranium This paper addresses two major questions: What are the challenges to nuclear fission...

...-to-failure. 16 06 2009 23 08 2010 06 04 2011 06 04 2011 decision making fission reactor safety inspection maintenance engineering nuclear power stations occupational safety production management In recent years, the nuclear industries are living a “nuclear...

... fission reactor materials fracture toughness testing internal stresses nuclear power stations pipes shrinkage stainless steel tensile testing welding welds fracture toughness leak-before-break narrow gap weld nuclear piping tensile strength welding residual stress Recently...

... and the associated criteria for avoiding the effects of creep. boilers creep failure (mechanical) fission reactors nuclear power stations pressure vessels softening stress analysis 11 04 2009 11 05 2010 14 02 2011 14 02 2011 We are grateful to Richard Wright of the Idaho...

.... creep design engineering fatigue nuclear power stations pipes thermal expansion thermal stresses 13 07 2007 16 12 2009 31 01 2011 31 01 2011 Several possibilities for a revision of the code have been discussed above but there is a better way. Rather than Eq. (10a...

... collaboration knowledge management nuclear power stations production engineering computing 15 02 2010 20 07 2010 21 01 2011 21 01 2011 2011 American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...

... treatment of the material and limits for the operational application. 10 07 2009 27 10 2009 20 01 2011 20 01 2011 equipment selection materials properties nuclear power stations pipes The material selection methodology used in Czech Nuclear Power Plant (NPP...

... to be useful under at least two respects: first, providing some understanding on the collapse behavior in a thickness range so far unexplored; second, giving an indication on the assumptions on which computer codes ought to be based when numerical analyses are required. buckling nuclear power stations...

.... These observations also motivated additional studies of the effects of shallow flaws. 10 11 2008 18 08 2009 14 10 2010 14 10 2010 fatigue cracks fracture toughness neutron effects nondestructive testing nuclear power stations plates (structures) steel thermal shock heavy...

... Procedure for Multiple Crack-Like Flaws in Failure Assessment Diagram (FAD) ,” ASME J. Pressure Vessel Technol. 0094-9930 , 131 , p. 041402 . 10.1115/1.3122026 09 11 2009 20 04 2010 14 10 2010 14 10 2010 crack detection inspection nuclear power stations pipes...

... detection nuclear power stations polyethylene insulation ultrasonic arrays ultrasonic materials testing The applicable construction codes and later editions and addenda do not provide rules for the material, design, fabrication, installation, examination, and testing of piping constructed...

... evaluation, according to the ASME-NH and RCC-MR for the cross vessel of Mod.9Cr-1Mo steel, has been conducted and their results were compared. 14 04 2009 06 11 2009 04 05 2010 04 05 2010 code standards creep fracture ducts fatigue nuclear power stations steel structural...

... engineering nuclear power stations pipes pressure vessels reliability safety steel yield strength design earthquake LRFD nuclear piping primary stress reliability The design by rule of Class 2 and 3 pipes in the ASME B&PV code, NC-, ND-3600 ( 1 ), is based on the allowable...

... of degradation have caused shutdowns, and leaks have become a maintenance issue. This brief will present a description of erosive damage mechanisms found in nuclear power plants. 30 11 2007 21 08 2009 29 01 2010 29 01 2010 corrosion environmental degradation erosion nuclear power...

.... 041203 . 10.1115/1.3147983 03 07 2008 28 09 2009 26 01 2010 26 01 2010 elastoplasticity finite element analysis nuclear power stations elastic-plastic cyclic load shakedown residual stress finite element method Nuclear components under cyclic loading...