High temperature expansion due to compression test for the determination of a cladding material failure criterion under RIA loading conditions

American Nuclear Society - 2007 LWR Fuel Performance/Top Fuel

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 526-535

  Le Saux, M ^a   Poussard, C ^a   Averty, X ^a   Catherine, C Sainte ^a   Carassou, S ^a   Besson, J ^b  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; CLADDING (COATING); COMPRESSION TESTING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DATA COMPRESSION; DEFORMATION; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAILURE MODES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FUELS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; LOADING; LOADS (FORCES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; METALS; MULTITASKING; PELLETIZING; PIGMENTS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENT; STAGES; STEEL STRUCTURES; STRAIN RATE; TESTING; THEOREM PROVING; ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

(ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC) STRESS; (PL) PROPERTIES; APPROPRIATE MATERIALS; BIAXIAL TENSIONS; BIAXIALITY; CLADDING ALLOYS; CLADDING MATERIALS; COMBINED ANALYSIS; COMPRESSION TESTS; DEFORMATION MODELING; DEFORMATION MODES; EXPERIMENTAL DATABASE; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; FINITE ELEMENT (FE) SIMULATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS (FEA); FUEL PERFORMANCE; HIGH STRAIN RATE (HSR); HIGH TEMPERATURE (HT); HIGH-TEMPERATURE EXPANSIONS; IN ORDER; INTERNATIONAL (CO); INVERSE METHOD (IM); LOADING CONDITIONS; LOADING PATHS; MECHANICAL INTERACTIONS; PILE TESTING; PLANE STRAINS; REACTIVITY (CHEMICAL); TEST DATA; TRANSIENT MECHANICAL; VISCO-PLASTIC; ZIRCALOY-4;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 44949216480     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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