Abstract
For the ferritic steel ½Cr½Mo¼V, the operating experience of medium and long term creep failures in power station welds has been of cavitation and cracking in the heat affected zone (HAZ) adjacent to the parent material, in what is referred to as the Type IV zone. This experience has led to the generation of uniaxial cross-weld creep rupture data on ½CrMoV weldments and to the development of life assessment procedures such as R5 Volume 7, which uses the rupture strength of the Type IV zone to calculate the life of power station components. Recently, the ECCC Working Group 3A has conducted a collation of the UK and German cross-weld creep rupture data on ½CrMoV weldments. Creep failure in ½CrMoV cross-weld specimens occurs in a variety of weldment zones; typically in the parent, the Type IV zone or the weld metal. Post test examination of the specimens has enabled those tests that failed in the Type IV zone to be identified and a creep rupture data assessment has been performed to derive a new model for the rupture strength of the Type IV zone.
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