Affiliations: National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
Note: [] Address for correspondence: Kazuo Kobayashi, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-2-1, Sengen, Tsukuba 305-0047, Japan. Tel.: +81 29 859 2248; Fax: +81 29 859 2201; E-mail: KOBAYASHI.Kazuo@nims.go.jp.
Abstract: Type 316FR stainless steel has been developed as a candidate material for fast breeder reactors. To ensure the structural integrity at high temperature of the reactor components including the reactor vessel, long-term data and an analysis method are investigated for 316FR steel to evaluate time-dependent low-cycle fatigue behavior. The present study reports the dependence from 550 to 600°C. Data are analyzed using a parameter method previously proposed by the authors. It is shown that the method effectively predicts fatigue life even at a very low strain rate of 10−6/s.
