Abstract
The influence of hydride blister on cold worked stress relieved Zircaloy-4 cladding tubes fracture toughness at room temperature was studied using hoop tensile tests and plane strain tensile tests. The experimental macroscopic fracture stress and strain values and an elastic-plastic finite element analysis of the mechanical tests with the CAST3M code were used to calculate the J-integral and estimate the fracture toughness for several blister depths from 120 to 240μm.
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