Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2001, 3(4):26-30 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2001.4.26-30
A Small Punch Test Method Application for the Evaluation of Reactor Pressure Vessel Material Properties Degradation
- 1 VUJE Trnava Comp., Trnava, Slovak Republic
In this paper we describe a new non-standard method for estimation of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) materials mechanical properties by a small punch (SP) test. The great advantage of the SP test method is a low volume of test samples.Using this method it is possible to obtain the following data of basic mechanical properties: the yield stress and ultimate tensile strength, ductile-brittle transition temperature, the fracture toughness value.This method has been involved in the VÚJE project "New Surveillance Specimen Program for Jaslovské Bohunice V-1 nuclear power plant (NPP)" (NSSP). This paper describes the basic information about a testing procedure, metallographic preparation of test samples and comparison between results from standard tests and this new testing method.
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