Abstract
A ductile pipe fracture test program has been conducted in Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) to investigate the ductile fracture behavior of circumferentially cracked pipes and to demonstrate the validity of the leak before break concept in LWR pipings. In the paper are described the scope of the pipe test program and current test results for 6-inch diameter type 304 stainless steel pipes. Test pipes with a through-wall or a part-through crack in the circumferential direction were bent under low or high compliance condition, and stable or unstable pipe fracture behavior was investigated. J based tearing instability criterion and the net section collapse criterion are compared with the pipe test results, and the validity of these fracture criteria is discussed. Furthermore, geometries of acceptable flaws in pipes are evaluated considering the leak before break condition.
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