Fatigue assessment of power plant components and monitoring during operation
- Resource Type
- Authors
- W. Zaiss; J. Bartonicek; Hans Kockelmann; W. Hienstorfer; D. Blind; F. Schöckle
- Source
- Nuclear Engineering and Design. 144:123-138
- Subject
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Engineering
Power station
business.industry
Mechanical Engineering
Reliability engineering
law.invention
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
law
Service life
Nuclear power plant
Electronic engineering
General Materials Science
Transient (oscillation)
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
business
Waste Management and Disposal
- Language
- ISSN
- 0029-5493
Practical experience has proved that not all transient loadings have been taken into consideration during design of components against fatigue. Specific monitoring of all components susceptible to fatigue during operation guarantees recording of all transient loadings (including unspecified), realistic fatigue analyses, adjustment of the mode of operation and improved assessment of the remaining service life. The experience of in-service monitoring at nuclear power plant GKN over some years serves as a basis for the above.