The main coolant piping material Z3CN20. 09 M was heat treated at 400° C for 18,000 h and
then the fracture behavior has been studied. To understand the effect of in-plane constraint …

The focus of the present study is to demonstrate a new method to determine the stretch zone
height and width using a fast and easy 3D imaging tool in the scanning electron microscope …

The fracture toughness of steel 15Kh2MFA (ІІ) after the PTL was investigated. It was
established that the crack start is a multilevel process, in which the defining role is played by …

Cryogenic elastic plastic, J‐integral investigations on metallic materials often show negative
crack extension values with respect to resistance curve J‐R. According to the present ASTM …

The study addresses numerical determination of stretch zone width and its critical value. The
proposed method is based on the highly deformed stretch zone that is defined as stretch …

Present work focuses on evaluating the suitability of newly proposed compact pipe (CP)
fracture specimen geometry for determining critical SZW. The effect of varying the parameter …

In case of small thin pipes (R/t≥ 10), such as pressure tubes in nuclear reactor, it is not
possible to get flat standard fracture specimens. In such evaluation of initial fracture …

Using large deformation FEM analyses in SA333Gr. 6 carbon steel material, the present
study demonstrated the assessment of SZWc value that leads to JSZWc and finally …

There is an increasing effort to use critical stretch zone width (SZW) for the evaluation of
initiation fracture toughness that is considered as geometry independent material property …

Among several other definitions, the crack initiation fracture toughness (Ji) based on critical
stretch zone width (SZWc), called JSZWc, is being considered as a geometry independent …