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Vol.58, No.8, 522 ~ 533, 2020
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| Title |
| Evaluation of Transition Temperature in Reactor Pressure Vessel Steels using the Fracture Energy Transition Curve from a Small Punch Test |
| 이태경 Tae-kyung Lee , 홍석민 Seokmin Hong , 김종민 Jongmin Kim , 김민철 Min-chul Kim , 장재일 Jae-il Jang |
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| Abstract |
| The small punch (SP) test is one of the small specimen test techniques, and standardization of the SP test method for evaluating the mechanical properties of metallic materials is in progress. In this study, the impact transition temperature of reactor pressure vessel steels (RPV) in nuclear power plants was estimated using the draft standard SP test method. The SP fracture energy (ESP) and normalized SP fracture energy (ENSP) of the RPV steels were evaluated at various temperatures, and their transition curves were derived and compared to the transition curve in the Charpy V notch (CVN) test. The SP transition region appeared at a much lower temperature range than that of the CVN owing to the size and notch effect. Ductile brittle transition temperature (DBTT) in the SP transition curve showed a linear relationship with DBTT and T41J in the CVN transition curve. The ductile to brittle transition behaviors of SP specimens were analyzed using fractographs and compared with the transition curves in ESP and ENSP. ENSP started to decrease at the temperature at which the SP ductile to brittle transition behavior occurred, and this means that the ENSP transition curves were in good agreement with transition behavior in the SP test. However, the ESP transition curves did not match transition behavior. Using DBTT in the ENSP transition curve is appropriate to estimate the CVNDBTT and T41J.
(Received May 21, 2020; Accepted June 24, 2020) |
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| Key Words |
| reactor pressure vessel, small punch test, ASTM WK61832, charpy impact test, transition temperature |
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