Transferability of Fracture Mechanical Characteristics

ŠKODA Cast Testing and Licensing Requirements.- Mechanical Properties of Cast Mn Steel after Intercritical Heat Treatment and Microalloying.- IAEA Requirements for Cask Testing and Short Summary of Developments at GNB.- Fracture Resistance of Cast Ferritic C-Mn Steel for Container of Spent Nuclear Fuel.- Micromechanical Aspects of Constraint Effect at Brittle Fracture Initiation.- Problems in Q-parameter Calculations.- Construction of J-Q Locus for Material of Reactor Pressure Vessel WWER 440 in the Ductile-Brittle Transition Region.- The Use of the Local Approach for the Brittle Fracture Prediction.- On the Application of the Beremin Model for Predicting the Brittle Fracture Resistance.- Physical Fundamentals of Local Approach to Analysis of Cleavage Fracture.- Probability of Brittle Fracture in Low Alloy Steels.- Damage Mechanisms and Local Approach to Fracture Part I: Ductile fracture.- Damage Mechanisms and Local Approach to Fracture Part II: Brittle fracture prediction in the ductile to brittle transition.- Toughness Scaling Model Applications.- Relation of Fracture Energy of Sub-sized Charpy Specimens to Standard Charpy Energy and Fracture Toughness.- Master Curve Methodology and Data Transfer from Small on Standard Specimens.- Master Curve Validity for Dynamic Fracture Toughness Characteristics.- Evaluation of Strain Rate Effects on Transition Behaviour Applying the Master Curve Methodology.- Dynamic Fracture Toughness Determination of Large SE(B) Specimens.- Fracture Toughness Behaviour of Thick-Walled Nodular Cast Iron at Elevated Loading Rates.- Finite Element Modelling of Charpy Impact Testing.- Notch Sensitivity Analysis on Fracture Toughness.- Quantification of Notch Effects — in Brittle-Ductile Transition.- Brittle Mixed Mode Fracture I+II: EmanatingFrom Notches. — Equivalent Notch Stress Intensity Factor — H..- Safety of the Steam Generator Cover: A PSA Case Study.