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New coolants, new fuels: A new generation of university reactors
Here’s an easy way to make aging U.S. power reactors look relatively youthful: Compare them (average age: 43) with the nation’s university research reactors. The 25 operating today have been licensed for an average of about 58 years.
Heinz-Josef Penkalla, Hans-Helmut Over, Florian Schubert
Nuclear Technology | Volume 66 | Number 3 | September 1984 | Pages 685-692
H. Design Codes and Life Prediction | Status of Metallic Materials Development for Application in Advanced High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor / Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT84-A33490
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At high temperatures, the creep deformation of metallic materials is correlated with the accumulation of creep damage. Creep crack growth leads to a decrease of bearing cross section and an increase in stationary creep. Both variables, creep strain rate and creep damage, are described by a system of coupled differential equations. The solutions of these equations are given for the boundary conditions of creep tests under constant load, for creep rupture behavior, for damage accumulation in the creep region, and for creep-regimed low-cycle fatigue. A general correlation between applied stress, cumulative strain, and cumulative damage is given.