Application of FAD on Pressure Tube for the Probabilitic Integrity Assessment

Autor: Jong-Bae Wang, Joon-Seong Lee, Youn-Won Park, Sang-Log Kwak
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A. 28:289-295
ISSN: 1226-4873
Popis: Pressure tubes are major component of nuclear reactor, but only selected samples are periodically examined due to numerous numbers of tubes. Current in-service inspection result show there is high probability of flaw existence at uninspected pressure tube. Probabilistic analysis is applied in this study for the integrity assessment of uninspected pressure tube. All the current integrity evaluations procedures are based on conventional deterministic approaches. So it is expected that the results obtained are too conservative to perform a rational evaluation of lifetime. More realistic failure criteria, based on FAD are also proposed for the probabilistic analysis. As a result of this study failure probabilities for various conditions are calculated, and examined application of FAD and LBB concept.
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