Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRESSURE VESSELS AND PIPING
Volume 89, Issue -, Pages 137-150Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpvp.2011.10.014
Keywords
Fracture toughness; Cleavage fracture; Crack; Notch
Funding
- Tata Steel
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This Part Part I paper describes a new engineering assessment methodology for ferritic steel structures containing non-sharp defects within the context of a Failure Assessment Diagram (FAD) approach. Although the modification of the FAD for non-sharp defects can be applied whether the initiating failure mechanism is cleavage or ductile tearing, this paper focuses on cleavage fracture. The parameters describing the sensitivity of the material toughness to the notch effect can either be measured by testing notched specimens of the same thickness as the structure, or for cleavage fracture they can be obtained using look-up tables generated using the Weibull stress toughness scaling model. The other parameters in the procedure can either be conservatively estimated using simple equations or they can be determined more accurately using finite element analysis. Validation of the new method is presented in the companion Part II paper: this shows that assessments of U-notched SE(B) specimens have significantly reduced conservatism when using the new assessment methodology compared to the standard FAD approach for sharp cracks. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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