Influence of liquid lead and lead–bismuth eutectic on tensile, fatigue and creep properties of ferritic/martensitic and austenitic steels for transmutation systems

Creep, creep-rupture tests of Al-surface-alloyed T91 steel in liquid lead bismuth at 500 and 550°C

“…This clearly promotes the assumption that below a specific strain the oxide scale will stay intact or has sufficient time to heel and thus no deterioration of creep properties is expected. The direct contact of LBE with the steel surface as a requirement for LBE affected reduction in mechanical properties was also clearly revealed by LME experiments performed by Vogt, Gorse and others [14,20,21].…”

Effects of temperature and strain rate on the tensile behaviors of SIMP steel in static lead bismuth eutectic

“…The mechanical properties of steels deteriorate when stressed in liquid metal environment [12][13][14]. Literature [10,15] shows that the total elongation, strength, fracture energy, creep-rupture, ductility, fatigue life of structural materials are deteriorated by LBE. The elongation at room temperature after pre-exposure to LBE also degrades [16].…”

Fuel cladding integrity analysis during beam trip transients for China lead-based demonstration reactor

“…Some LBE corrosion experiments about T91 have been carried out, according to the low cycle fatigue of T91 in LBE corrosion condition experiment conducted by Verleene et al (2006) and Gorse et al (2011), results show that from low cycle fatigue tests under Fig. 6.…”

“…Thermal stress calculation was based on the conceptual design of China Lead-based Demonstration Reactor (CLEAR-III) (Chen et al, 2011(Chen et al, , 2013 using CFX 13.0 and ANSYS Transient Structural Module. Effects including irradiation, LBE corrosion and creep discussions were carried out on the basis of existing research results on T91 steel (Gorse et al, 2011;Henry et al, 2003;Jianu et al, 2009;Tong and Dai, 2010;Verleene et al, 2006). Fuel cladding integrity during beam trips was the most concern in this study.…”