Fracture Toughness Master Curve Development: Fracture Toughness Of Ferritic Steels And ASTM Reference Temperature (To)

Fracture Toughness Master Curve Development: Fracture Toughness Of Ferritic Steels And ASTM Reference Temperature (To)

Fracture Toughness Master Curve Development: Fracture Toughness Of Ferritic Steels And ASTM Reference Temperature (To)

Standard
Format: PDF
Published year: 2000
Organization: WRC
Language: English
Pages: 56
ISEN: WRC Bulletin 457

Summary

WRC Bulletins 457, 458 and 459 form an integral set documenting the development of an alternative to the ASME Section III RTNDT procedure based on To, and the development of an ASME Code Case. WRC Bulletin 457 Fracture Toughness of Ferritic Steels and ASTM Reference Temperature (To), describes the results of the three-phase project initiated by the Committee on Failure Modes of Components of the Pressure Vessel Research Council: 1. To verify the Master Curve approach for pressure vessel steels, 2. To develop a database which can be used in the future development of ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code procedures which make use of To or the Master Curve approach, and 3. To use the data to develop and verify an ASME Code Case. A proposed ASME Code Case is presented which uses the current KIc curve, but is shifted using an equivalent RTNDT which is based on the fracture toughness reference temperature, To, rather than the RTNDT value based on Charpy impact and drop weight test results.
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