Elastic–plastic J and COD estimation schemes for 90° elbow with throughwall circumferential crack at intrados under in-plane opening moment
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Leak-before-break (LBB) assessment of primary heat transport piping of nuclear reactors involves detailed fracture assessment of pipes and elbows with postulated throughwall cracks. Fracture assessment requires the calculation of elastic–plastic J-integral and crack opening displacement (COD)1 for these piping components. Analytical estimation schemes to evaluate elastic–plastic J-integral and COD simplify the calculations. These types of estimation schemes are available for pipes with various crack configurations subjected to different types of loading. However, such schemes for elbow (or pipe bend), which is one of the important components for LBB analyses, is very meager. Recently, elastic–plastic J and COD estimation scheme has been developed for throughwall circumferentially cracked elbow subjected to closing bending moment. However, it is well known that the elbow deformation characteristics are distinctly different for closing and opening bending modes because the ovalisation patterns of elbow cross section are different under these two modes. Development of elastic–plastic J and COD estimation scheme for an elbow with throughwall circumferential crack at intrados subjected to opening bending moment forms the objective of the present paper. Experimental validation of proposed J-estimation scheme has been provided by comparing the crack initiation, unstable ductile tearing loads and crack extension at instability with the test data. The COD estimation scheme has been validated by comparing the COD of test data with the predictions of the proposed scheme.
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