Design methodologies for high temperature reactor structural components cladded with noncompliant materials

B. Barua, B. Jetter, V. T. Phan, T. L. Sham, M. C. Messner, Y. Wang

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Abstract

The existing Class A metallic materials qualified for ASME Section III, Division 5 rules for high temperature nuclear reactors, are not optimized for corrosion resistance when exposed to corrosive reactor coolants such as molten salts, and molten lead and lead-bismuth eutectic. Introducing new corrosion-resistant materials into the Code would be a lengthy and expensive process for long design lifetimes, requiring long-term creep test data. A near-term alternative solution might be to allow designers to clad the existing Class A materials with thin layer of some corrosion-resistant material. However, the current ASME Section III, Division 5 rules provide no guidance on evaluating cladded components against the Code creep-fatigue or strain limits requirements. This necessitates the development of design rules for cladded components that do not require long-term testing of clad materials. Depending on the difference in mechanical properties, the influence of clad on the long term response of the structural system can be significant or negligible. This work focuses on developing design rules for cladded components with a clad material that does not accumulate significant inelastic deformation compared to the base material. This work proposes to treat such clad materials as linear elastic. Sample calculations including finite element analyses of a representative molten salt reactor heat exchanger tube without and with clad were performed to verify the proposed approach. Finally, a complete set of design rules for components with noncompliant clad material is proposed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCodes and Standards
PublisherAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
ISBN (Electronic)9780791858929
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
EventASME 2019 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, PVP 2019 - San Antonio, United States
Duration: Jul 14 2019Jul 19 2019

Publication series

NameAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers, Pressure Vessels and Piping Division (Publication) PVP
Volume1
ISSN (Print)0277-027X

Conference

ConferenceASME 2019 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, PVP 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Antonio
Period07/14/1907/19/19

Funding

The research was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 with Argonne National Laboratory, managed and operated by UChicago Argonne LLC, and under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), managed and operated by UT-Battelle, LLC. Programmatic direction was provided by the Office of Nuclear Energy. This manuscript has been co-authored by UChicago Argonne LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 and by UT-Battelle, LLC. Under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan: (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).

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