Stress Corrosion Cracking Test and Estimation of Cracking Potential of Every Pipes
Motoaki SHIBAYAMA, Toshimitsu TAKAGI, Shin-ich HIRANO and Naoya SHIGEMOTO
Abstract:The morphology of cracks, the chemical adhesions on the cracks, large residual stresses in pipes, and the location of cracks restricted to pipes of short hot water flow were reported in the previous paper. It was also found that the temperature depending peaks in chloride production was caused by the properties of FeCl3. Semi-quantitative expression of the chloride production was proposed. A four points bending stress test was performed on the steel plates with the baked on PVC tape in humid air at 80. It is found that the baked PVC tape is the most harmful in 50% humid air, and its harm is same as NaCl in 100% humid air. The highest possible stress in pipes and the highest possible atmospheric temperature surrounding pipes is estimated to be 200MPa and40, respectively. By taking both temperature- and stress- dependences into consideration, the SCC curve relating PVC-tape-induced-contamination for pipes in stagnant was established. Under the assumption of linear damage rule in stress corrosion cracking phenomena, damage to be accumulated in 60 years to pipes with fluids of various temperature and duration were calculated and a damage contour was graphed with a fluid temperature ordinate and a flow duration abscissa. The fluid conditions of major pipes at the Ikata-1 nuclear power plant, which@had not received the full inspection, were positioned on so low area on the damage contour that the plant was estimated to be safe for the coming forty years. Key Words:Stress corrosion cracking, Poly vinyl chloride, Stainless steel, Atomic power plant, Linear damage rule