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Davide Bernardi
ENEA Brasimone
International Workshop on
Innovative Nuclear Reactors cooled by
Heavy liquid metals:
Status and Perspectives
Pisa, April 17th 20th , 2012
OUTLINE
Nuclear design codes
Overview of RCC-MR design rules
Types of damages
Criteria levels
Operating conditions categories
Breakdown of stresses
Classification of stresses
Prevention of P-type damages
Prevention of S-type damages
Current upgrade of the Code for Gen IV system design
Creep-fatigue tests on P91
Summary
TYPES OF DAMAGES
P-type damages: damages resulting from constant or monotonic loadings
Load-controlled buckling
Strain-controlled bucking
Time-dependent bucking
Ductile tearing
CRITERIA LEVELS
Level A: aims at protecting the equipment against P-type and S-type damages
It garantees the highest level of safety margins against both P-type and S-type damages
throughout the entire life of the component
Level C: aims at protecting the equipment against P-type and buckling damages
Garantees a relaxed level of safety compared to Level A (no fatigue analysis)
Small overall deformations can occur if some loading (although satisfying Level C) exceeds
Level A criteria
In this case, it could be necessary to inspect the component before re-using it
Number of stress cycles limited to 10
Level D: aims at protecting the equipment against same damages of Level C but with lower safety margins
Not always possible to put again in service components subjected to loadings limited only by
Level D criteria
ASME code introduces also a Level B criteria for pressure retaining enclosures (this is not provided
in RCC-MR: in this case, regulations in force for pressure-retaining equipment must be applied)
1st Category Operating Conditions (SF1) and 2nd Category Operating Conditions (SF2)
Shut-down
Criteria level to be met: Level A
Operating conditions and associated level criteria must be specified in the Equipment
Specifications of the component
BREAKDOWN OF STRESSES
Stress tensor ij obtained by elastic analysis
Membrane stress :
+h/2
CLASSIFICATION OF STRESSES
Primary stress (P)
Part of the total stress that does not disappear under a small deformation
Ex. : stress due to mechanical loads (e.g. weight, pressure, external loads such as distributed
or concentrated loads,)
Warning: if risk of elastic follow-up exists, it is prudent to consider all the membrane stresses
as primary stresses
CLASSIFICATION OF STRESSES
All symbols refer to sets of 6 quantities
representing the stress tensor components
(ex: Pm ijm is the membrane part of the
stress tensor due to primary loads)
Lm : local membrane stress due mechanical loading and associated to geometrical or load
discontinuities. Added to primary stresses for prudence (risk of elastic follow-up)
PL = Pm + Lm : local primary membrane stress
2)
- NEGLIGIBLE creep
creep::
Efficiency diagram
ASME code considers only the 3Sm rule for prevention of progressive deformations
<1
where the maximum number Nj of allowable strain cycles is obtained from the fatigue curves at the
maximum temperature j
Symmetrization coefficient
(given by the Code)
with
Creep rupture
usage fraction (W)
Creep-fatigue specimen
Expected
experimental
points for
creep-fatigue
tests
Allowable area
Fatigue usage
fraction (V)
0
t
-0
SUMMARY