Materials Science and Technology - Nuclear Materials, Advanced Course - Kon-67.5100 Postgraduate Seminar on Engineering Materials - Seminar papers 8 October, 2015

The Engineering materials research group of Department of Engineering Design and Production of Aalto University arranged a postgraduate course on nuclear materials. The course consisted of three day long lecture session given in April 20-22, 2015. Lectures were given by professionals from nuclear power related research institutes (Aalto and VTT), nuclear industry and authority. The course also included a seminar session held October 8, 2015. The seminar session was targeted to postgraduate students, who prepared articles from their field of expertise. This proceeding is the collection of these seminar articles

Test methodologies for determining high temperature material properties of thin walled tubes

This report presents briefly the test methods used, within the in the EERA JPNM Pilot Project TASTE, for defining the tensile and creep material properties relevant to the integrity of nuclear fuel claddings. These properties are challenging to extract from thin walled tubes since the standard test methods use test specimen that require minimum material thicknesses in the order of 10 mm or more. In consequence the thin walled material properties are acquired through a number of testing techniques and evaluation methodologies suitable for the thin walled product form. In this report the different test methods and their data assessment requirements are briefly described. The test methods evaluated here comprises of sub-size (curved specimen) tensile testing (ST) of the cladding tube, micro specimen (dog-bone) tensile testing (MT), Small Punch testing (SP), Segmented Expanding Cone Mandrel tests (SCM), the ring tension (RT) and ring compression (RC) tests and internal pressure testing (IP).JRC.G.I.4-Nuclear Reactor Safety and Emergency Preparednes