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Abstract

Welding residual stress is one of the most important factors of stress corrosion cracking (SCC) growth in pressure boundary piping. A probabilistic fracture mechanics model of structural reliability is described that considers failure to occur as the result of subcritical and catastrophic growth of pre-existing cracks that escape detection. The model considers cracks to be two-dimensional and is capable of treating many of the input parameters as random variables and can consider arbitrary inspection schedules.
Residual stresses play a very important role in the initiation and growth of stress corrosion cracks. Hence they are important in the analysis of reliability of sensitized welds in BWR piping; our model includes extensive provisions for their consideration.


BibTex

@inproceedings{uniusa71,
    title={Reliability analysis of BWR piping including the effect of residual Stresses},
    author={A. Guedri, A. Zeghloul and B. Merzoug},
    year={2009},
    booktitle={International Review of Mechanical Engineering (I.RE.M.E.), ISSN: 1970 – 8734, September 2009, Vol. 3, n. 5, pp.640-645}
}