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Anisotropic Biaxial Creep of Textured Nb-Modified Zircaloy-4 Tubing

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Biaxial creep of Nb-modified Zircaloy-4 (HANA-4) tubing is investigated at varied ratios of hoop and axial stresses at a constant temperature of 500 °C using internal pressurization superimposed with axial load while monitoring the hoop and axial strains using non-contact laser telemetric extensometer and linear variable differential transducer, respectively. Steady-state creep rates along the hoop and axial directions were evaluated in the power-law creep regime from which the creep locus was derived at a constant energy of dissipation. The resulting creep locus was compared with that predicted by the anisotropy parameters, R and P in the Hill’s formulation for generalized stress for anisotropic materials. Crystallographic texture of the tubing was characterized using electron backscatter diffraction technique. Research is supported by NSF grant #DMR0968825.

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This research was supported by NSF grant #DMR0968825.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Engineering, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

    Nilesh Kumar, Kaitlin Grundy & Korukonda Murty

  2. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

    Boopathy Kombaiah

  3. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400030, China

    Baifeng Luan

  4. BWX Technologies, Lynchburg, VA, USA

    Kaitlin Grundy

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Kumar, N., Grundy, K., Kombaiah, B., Luan, B., Murty, K. (2017). Anisotropic Biaxial Creep of Textured Nb-Modified Zircaloy-4 Tubing. In: Charit, I., Zhu, Y., Maloy, S., Liaw, P. (eds) Mechanical and Creep Behavior of Advanced Materials. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51097-2_2

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