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OECD NEA meeting focuses on irradiation experiments
Members of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) joint undertaking gathered from September 29 to October 3 in Ketchum, Idaho, for the technical advisory group and governing board meetings hosted by Idaho National Laboratory. The FIDES-II Framework aims to ensure and foster competences in experimental nuclear fuel and structural materials in-reactor experiments through a diverse set of Joint Experimental Programs (JEEPs).
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 38 | Number 3 | May 1978 | Pages 415-426
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A32039
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Fatigue and creep crack propagation in 20 and 25% cold-worked Type 304 and 20% cold-worked Type 316 stainless steels were examined at 427 to 593°C (800 to 1100°F). The resistance to fatigue crack growth was slightly better for Type 304 stainless steel compared to Type 316 stainless steel, and was improved by an increase in cold work; however, these differences were small Compared to solution-annealed stainless steel, the cold-worked steels had higher crack growth resistance at high stress intensity levels. Creep crack growth occurred at 482°C (900°F), but much higher stress intensities, K, were required than in fatigue. However, at 593°C creep and fatigue crack growth occurred over the same K range and, in fact, at higher K levels crack growth in creep was faster than in fatigue. Retardation of crack growth was observed when the load on a specimen was changed from cyclic to static.