33 datasets found

This application is prepared according to the suggestion made by the panel for our RB1820187 application. In this application we request a day of Express time and will carry out...

Stress corrosion cracking is an important degradation mechanism that is threatening the structural integrity of pressurised water reactors throughout the world. AREVA has...

Unlike casting, Selective Laser Melting (SLM) powder bed system can be applied to build near-netshape components with complex geometries in a short lead time. Recently, SLM...

This study addresses the need to improve the reliability of measurements of weld residual stress; particularly for the type of welds used within the nuclear power industry. Such...

Suffering brittleness in ambient temperature, the application of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) is limited. To overcome that, bulk metallic glass composites (BMGCs) were...

The present work proposes to investigate the mechanisms of the hot and the superplastic (SP) deformation behaviour for a two-phase Titanium alloy (Ti-6Al-4V) that presents an...

Zr is used extensively in nuclear reactors worldwide in a broad range of microstructural conditions due to its thermomechanical, corrosion and neutronic properties. However the...

Electron beam (EB) welding is a well-established and frequently used joining method within the aerospace industry. A numerical model, using a commercial weld-simulation package...

Hydroxyapatite (HA) is a natural compound (Ca10 (PO4)6(OH) 2) found in human bone and clinical research has shown that HA coated orthopaedic implants improve the ingrowth and...

While destruction of heritage during armed conflict is not a new phenomenon, the targeted cultural vandalism and associated social media campaign instigated by IS/Daesh has...

Mechanical properties of metals can be largely degraded by the present of solute hydrogen, and this phenomenon is referred as hydrogen embrittlement. This phenomenon has been...

Stress-free lattice parameter measurements in d0 cubes extracted from a nuclear power plant mock-up dissimilar metal weld have exhibited wide scatter among different...

The experiment wishes to measure the strain profiles across 12 mm thick reference ceramics slabs especially produced to minimize and maximize thermal stress during cooling. The...

A full-sized section of 304-stainless steel pipe with a non-stress relieved girth-butt weld has been obtained from a Pressurised Water Reactor. This project will accurately map...

As additive manufacturing (AM) is moving into the production of more heavily loaded end-use components, particularly within the aerospace sector, improved understanding of the...

Graphite bricks are both the moderator and structural components at the heart of the Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) cores. Internal stress arises from the moderation role of...

Laser forming is a novel manufacturing technique used to form metal sheet into complex geometries. The process is based on the introduction of thermal stress including plastic...

Approved proposal under the ICRD Scheme Proposal ICRD0007

Fibre Laser Beam Welding (FLBW) is a relatively new technology that has many advantages over other welding techniques. An understanding of the residual stress and...

In welded joints subjected to multiaxial fatigue, it is of interest to determine both the time to crack initiation and propagation to understand what controls fatigue life of...