Accession Number:
AD0750710
Title:
Dynamic Fracture Toughness Determined from Instrumented Pre-Cracked Charpy Tests.
Descriptive Note:
Technical rept.,
Corporate Author:
CALIFORNIA UNIV LOS ANGELES SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE
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Report Date:
1972-08-01
Pagination or Media Count:
106.0
Abstract:
The use of an instrumented impact hammer on pre-cracked Charpy V-notch specimens led to a reliable and inexpensive method for determining dynamic fracture toughness. Measurements were made on A-533, Grade B, Class 1 steel from -125F to 75F. The data were found to be in excellent agreement with those obtained by other workers on much larger specimens. Similar tests were run with standard Charpy V-notch specimens to determine dynamic tensile yield strength values. A comparison of the dynamic yield and toughness values suggests a meaningful technique for estimating the NDT temperature, which should be of practical value in nuclear reactor surveillance programs. Author
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Subject Categories:
- Test Facilities, Equipment and Methods
- Nuclear Power Plants and Fission Reactor Engineering