Output details
15 - General Engineering
Oxford Brookes University
Article title
Failure Analysis of the Effects of Porosity in Thermally Oxidised Nuclear Graphite Using Finite Element Modelling
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Journal of Nuclear Materials
Article number
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Volume number
381
Issue number
1-2
First page of article
1
ISSN of journal
0022-3115
Year of publication
2008
URL
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Number of additional authors
6
Additional information
The main threat to the operation of the UK AGR fleet is from cracking of core bricks with increasing oxidation. Hitherto nuclear reactor operators have adopted an over-simplified linear elastic model to describe crack growth in nuclear graphites. This paper demonstrates that sophisticated 3D models and resulting X-ray tomography can provide mechanistic understanding of the graphite core. This paper led to the development of various successor models which the nuclear licensees have used to underwrite statutory safety cases.
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
C - Sustainable Engineering and Innovation
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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