INCEFA-PLUS Project: Review of the test programme and main results
INCEFA-PLUS (INcreasing Safety in NPPs by Covering gaps in Environmental Fatigue Assessment) is a project supported by the European Commission HORIZON2020 programme. The project commenced in mid of 2015 and will be finished in mid of 2020. 16 organisations from across Europe are participating in this project. During this project new experimental data was obtained which will support the development of improved guidelines for assessment of environmental fatigue damage to ensure safe operation of nuclear power plants.
This project characterized environmentally assisted fatigue of stainless steels in light water reactor environments. During this project more than 200 fatigue tests have been carried out in different laboratories across Europe in air and water environment. Most tests were performed on a single batch of 304L, an austenitic stainless steel alloys employed in NPPs. The tests addressed the effects of strain amplitude, hold time periods, material roughness and mean strain/stress on fatigue endurance. A limited number of tests was carried out on other batches of 304L and on X6 CrNiTi 18 10, a Ti stabilised steel used in VVERs. Additionally, activities on the effects of mean stress under strain control, testing at reduced environmental fatigue correction factor Fen, and different applications of hold time as well as biaxial fatigue tests have been carried out. The data obtained has been collected and standardised in an online environmental fatigue database MatDB.
The paper is for the dissemination of the project results. It is summarized the tests performed during the project.
DUNDULIS G.;
GRYBENAS Albertas;
BRUCHHAUSEN Matthias;
CICERO Roman;
MOTTERSHEAD Kevin;
HUOTILAINEN Caitlin;
LE ROUX Jean-Christophe;
VANKEERBERGHEN Marc;
2021-03-25
Tanger Ltd.
JRC120676
2694-9296 (online),
https://www.confer.cz/metal/2020/3496-incefa-plus-project-review-of-the-test-programme-and-main-results,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC120676,
10.37904/metal.2020.3496 (online),
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