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Effect of reactor irradiation on the rupture strength and creep of steel 0Kh16N15M3B in plane stress. Report no. 1

Experimental investigation of rupture strength

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Conclusions

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    It was shown that intensive reactor irradiation, within the investigated intervals of the initial parameters of the experiments, substantially changes the limiting state of steel 0Kh16N15M3B. It lowers time-to-rupture by roughly two orders. The level of the radiative reduction in time-to-rupture increases with a decrease in stress.

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    Given the parameter values investigated, reactor irradiation does not alter the type of functional relationship between time-to-rupture and stress. The above-noted reduction in time-to-rupture evidently occurs only as a result of an increasein the intensity of the fracture process.

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    In studying the limiting state of structural materials and obtaining correct results on the correspondence between the rupture strength of the materials and different criteria, it is necessary to consider the grain size of the original structure.

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    Within the investigated range of parameter values in experiments with a fixed grain size, the investigated rupture-strength criteria cannot be used in tests under normal conditions. In the case of reactor irradiation, the von Mises and Pisarenko-Lebedev criteria may be used as first approximations.

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  1. Institute of Strength Problems, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev

    G. P. Khristov, V. K. Lukashev, B. D. Kosov, N. P. Losev, A. Ya. Rogozyanov & B. V. Samsonov

  2. V. I. Lenin Scientific-Research Institute of Atomic Reactors, Dimitrovgrad

    G. P. Khristov, V. K. Lukashev, B. D. Kosov, N. P. Losev, A. Ya. Rogozyanov & B. V. Samsonov

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Translated from Problemy Prochnosti, No. 7, pp. 77–84, July, 1981.

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Khristov, G.P., Lukashev, V.K., Kosov, B.D. et al. Effect of reactor irradiation on the rupture strength and creep of steel 0Kh16N15M3B in plane stress. Report no. 1. Strength Mater 13, 895–901 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00767313

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