Abstract
The RSE-M Code provides rules and requirements for inservice inspection of French Pressurized Water Reactor power plant components. Appendices 5.3 and 5.4 of the Code give non mandatory guidance for analytical evaluation of flaws, i.e. fracture mechanics analyses based on simplified methods. Flaw assessment aims to calculate the initiation and the subsequent propagation of the crack under cyclic loading (fatigue analysis) and then to assess the crack stability, by comparing the applied J integral to the toughness of the material. This paper shows an overview of the R&D work undergone to make possible an analytical approach: • analytical formulas for the elastic stress field in elbows under in-plane, out-of-plane and torsion moments, • stress intensity factors solutions based on the influence coefficient method for surface and embedded cracks in pipes, • simplified methods to estimate the J integral for various configurations of piping, flaws and loading. These methods are shortly presented, including their field of application and their validation.
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