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Sattari-Far, Iradj; Lorentzon, Mikael
Swedish Radiation Safety Authority, Stockholm (Sweden)2011
Swedish Radiation Safety Authority, Stockholm (Sweden)2011
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[en] The overall objective of the NESC network has been to examine the reliability of the entire process of structural integrity assessment within an international framework. Within this network, six projects were conducted under the period of 1993-2008. The main targets of these projects were: NESC-I: This project evaluated the interactions among various technical disciplines applied to the integrity assessment of a large-scale thermally shocked spinning cylinder experiment. The cylinder test was designed to simulate selected conditions associated with an ageing flawed reactor pressure vessel. NESC-II: This project was on brittle crack initiation, propagation and arrest of shallow cracks in clad vessels under PTS loading. The results of this project underlined the conservatism of existing defects assessment procedures for shallow RPV flaws. NESC-III: This project was to quantify the accuracy of structural integrity assessment procedures for defects in dissimilar welds. The project was built around the conducted ADIMEW-project to share its overall objectives and to provide additional input. NESC-IV: This project was an experimental/analytical program to develop validated analysis methods for transferring fracture toughness data generated on standard test specimens to shallow flaws in reactor pressure vessel welds subject to biaxial loading in the lower-transition temperature region. NESC-V: This project aimed to develop a European multi-level procedure for handling of thermal fatigue phenomena in the nuclear power plant components. It also aimed to create a database of service and mock-up data for better understanding of thermal fatigue damage mechanisms. NESC-VI: This project was an extension of the NESC-IV project. Embedded subclad racks in beam specimens under uniaxial loading were studied to study the transferability of fracture toughness data between different crack configurations. This report gives an overview report of these six NESC projects. The reports cover the main features of each project including; crack configurations, loading, material characterization, fracture assessments and important conclusions. Also given in this report is a comparison of different codes in fracture prediction of the NESC-I test. Based on this review study, some important conclusions and recommendations useful for the Swedish NPP are given
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Feb 2011; 90 p; ISSN 2000-0456;
; PROJECT SSM 2008/30 - 2037012-25; Also available from: http://www.stralsakerhetsmyndigheten.se/Global/Publikat; 23 refs., figs., tabs.

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