The treatment of constraint effects in integrity evaluations

Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 345-351

  Cicero, S ^a   Ainsworth, R A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b BRITISH ENERGY GENERATION LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT EFFECT; CRACK TIP; INTEGRITY EVALUATIONS; STRESS FIELD;

BENDING (DEFORMATION); CRACK INITIATION; CRACKS; LOADS (FORCES);

STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 27744579978     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2005-67567     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (31)

1. Landes, J.D., McCabe, D.E., and Ernst, H.A., 1989, "Geometry effects on the R-curve, in non linear fracture mechanics: Volume 2 - Elastic Plastic Fracture" (eds J D Landes, A Saxena and J G Merkle) ASTM STP 905, pp. 123-143.
2. Hancock, J.W., Reuter W.G., and Parks, D.M., 1993 "Constraint and toughness parameterized by T, in Constraint Effects in Fracture" (eds E M Hackett, K-H Schwalbe and R H Dodds), ASTM STP 1171, pp. 21-40.
3. Burstow, M.C., and Howard, I.C., 1996, "Predicting the effects of crack tip constraint on material resistance curves using ductile damage theory", Fatigue Fract Engng Mater Struct, 19, pp. 461-474.
4. O'Dowd, N.P., and Shih, C.F., 1992, "Family of crack tip fields characterised by a triaxiality parameter: part II - fracture applications", J Mech Phys Solids, 40, pp. 939-963.
5. Ainsworth, R.A., and O'Dowd, N.P., 1995, "Constraint in the failure assessment diagram approach for fracture assessment", ASME J Pres Ves Technol, 117, 260-267.
6. MacLennan, I., and Hancock, J.W., 1995, "Constraint based failure assessment diagrams", in Proc Roy Soc LondA451, pp. 757-777.
7. Smith, E., 2004, "A comparison of Mode I and Mode in results for the elastic stress distribution in the immediate vicinity of a blunt notch", International Journal of Engineering Science, 42, pp. 473-481.
8. Spink, G.M., Worthington, P.J., and Heald, P.T., 1973, "The effect of notch acuity on fracture toughness testing", Materials Science and Engineering, 11, pp. 113-117.
9. McClung, R.C., Chell, G.G., Lee, Y-D., Russell, D.A., and Orient, G.E., 1999, "Development of a practical methodology for elastic-plastic and fully-plastic fatigue crack growth", Report NASA/CR-1999-209428.
10. FITNET, European Fitness-for-Service Network, EU 's Framework 5, Proposal No. GTC1-2001-43049, Contract No. G1RT-CT-2001-05071
11. R6: Assessment of the integrity of structures containing defects, British Energy Generation Limited, Revision 4, 2001.
12. VOCALIST, Validation of Constraint Based Assessment Methodology in Structural Integrity, FIKS CT-2000-00090, Fifth Framework of the European Atomic Energy Comunity (EURATOM).
13. Nilsson K.F., 2001, "Current Issues for the Application of Constraint-Based Procedures in Fracture Mechanics Assessments of Ageing NPP Components", Project VOCALIST, D1.
14. Beremin, F., 1983, "A local criterion for cleavage fracture of a nuclear pressure vessel", Metall. Trans., 14a, pp. 2277-2287.
15. Beremin, P.M., 1981, "Experimental and numerical study of the different stages", Ductile rupture in Application to crack initiation and stable crack growth, three dimensional constitutive relations and ductile fracture, Ed. Nemat-Nasser, S., North Holland Publishing Company, pp. 185-205.
16. Gurson, A.L., 1997, "Continuum Theory of ductile rupture by void nucleation and growth. Part I: Yield criteria and flow rules for porous ductile materials", J. Eng. Mat. Tech., 99, pp. 2-15.
17. Tvergaard, V., 1981, "Influence of voids on shear band instabilities under plane strain conditions", Int. J. Fracture, 17, pp. 389-407 (1981).
18. Tvergaard, V., 1982, "On localization in ductile materials containing spherical voids", Int. J. Fracture, 18, pp. 237-252.
19. Rousselier, G., 1987, "Ductile fracture models and their potential in local approach of fracture", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 105, pp. 97-111.
20. Griffith, A.A., 1920, "The phenomena of rupture and flow in solids", Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London. A 221, pp. 163-198.
21. Pluvinage, G., 1998, "Fatigue and fracture emanating from notch; the use of the notch stress intensity factor", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 185, pp. 173-184.
22. Bao, Y., and Jin, Z., 1993, Fatigue Fract Eng. Mater. Struct., 16, 829.
23. Fenghui, W., 2000, Journal of Material Science, 35, 2543.
24. Kim, J.H., Kim, D.H., and Moon, S.I., 2004, "Evaluation of static and dynamic fracture toughness using apparent fracture toughness of notched specimens", Materials Science and Engineering, Article in press.
25. Creager, M., and Paris, C., 1967, "Elastic field equations for blunt cracks with reference to stress corrosion cracking", International Journal of Fracture, 3, pp. 247-252.
26. Taylor, D., Cornetti, P. and Pugno, N., 2005, "The fracture mechanics of finite crack extension", Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 72, 1021-1038.
27. Fett, T., 2005, "Influence of a finite notch root radius on fracture toughness", Journal of European Ceramic Society, 25, 29-36.
28. Sherry, A.H., Wilkes, M.A., Beardsmore, D.W. and Lidbury, D., 2004, "Material Constraint Parameters for the Assessment of Shallow Defects in Structural Components- Part I: Parameter Solutions", Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Article in press.
29. Wallin, K., 1984, "The scatter in KIC results", Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 19, pp. 1085-1093.
30. 0", Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 68, pp. 303-328.
31. Cicero, S., 2005, "Evaluación de la integridad estructural de componentes sometidos a condiciones de bajo confinamiento", PhD Thesis, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain, To be published.