Evaluation of Blister Behavior for U10Mo Mini Fuel Plates With Cold Rolled Foils

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hakan Ozaltun ◽  
Samuel J. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Cold Rolling ◽  
Thermal Cycling ◽  
Cold Work ◽  
Rolling Process ◽  
Foil Thickness ◽  
Rolled Plate ◽  
Stress Profile ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Threshold Temperatures ◽  
Cold Rolled

This article aims to provide possible mechanical causes for the lowered blister temperatures of RERTR-12 and AFIP-4 fuel plates. Recent experimental investigations to determine the blister threshold temperatures have indicated lower thresholds for similar plates with comparable burn-up histories. Measured blister temperatures of roughly 100 °C lower compared to the previously tested plates may not be satisfactory for some plates. The primary differences between recent experiments and previous tests are: (1) An aggressive cold work process involving large thickness reduction ratios without normalization or full annealing (2) Subjecting the plates to a thermal cycling process prior to irradiation, and finally (3) A primarily frontal neutron flux as opposed to a transverse flux profile. It is believed that the stress field has implications to blister behavior. To investigate this claim, the stress-strain states for the fabrication procedure were evaluated. First, the residual stress profile caused by the cold rolling process was calculated. Modeling of the cold rolling process has shown confirmation of residual stresses of considerable magnitude and the existence of stress gradients with respect to foil thickness prior to the HIP process. Once calculated, these stress profiles were used as an initial condition for the fabrication process. Due to the variation in stress fields depending on location at which a foil is cut from the cold rolled plate, three representative regions were selected and implemented in the HIP simulation. Variation in stresses, depending on location of the cold rolled plate as well and variation in the through-thickness, results in a wide range of mechanical stress states. This suggests that inhomogeneous irradiation and thermal cycling behavior will result from the use of cold rolled foils. Additionally, these results suggest that there will be fundamental differences in fuel plate behavior observed between plates fabricated with cold rolled foils versus hot rolled and fully annealed foils.

Effect of Cold Rolling on the Damping of As Cast Cu-Al-Mn Shape Memory Alloys

2008 ◽  
Vol 137 ◽  
pp. 155-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Mielczarek ◽  
Yvonne Wöckel ◽  
Werner Riehemann
Keyword(s):  
Dislocation Density ◽  
Cold Rolling ◽  
Shape Memory Alloys ◽  
Shape Memory ◽  
Cold Work ◽  
Amplitude Dependence ◽  
Aluminium Content ◽  
Aging Effects ◽  
High Deformation ◽  
Cold Rolled

The ductility of Cu – Al – Mn shape memory alloys at room temperature depends on the aluminium content. High aluminium contents make Cu – Al – Mn very brittle and unsuitable for plastic shaping. Two Cu – Al – Mn shape memory alloys were investigated. The ductile alloy CuAl7.8Mn9.5 (all contents in wt. %) could be easily cold rolled by 86 %. The alloy CuAl12Mn4.3 could be cold rolled by only 12 - 14 %. The amplitude dependence of damping of austenitic specimens increased with increasing degree of cold work, whereas the damping of martensiticaustenitic specimens decreased. These observations can be explained by the creation of stress induced martensite and therefore by new moveable interfaces like phase- and twin boundaries, which contribute to damping. Plastic deformation increases the dislocation density, too. Both the increase of dislocation density and the increase of martensite content can lead to a decrease of damping mainly for high deformation degrees. Same shape memory alloys have shown negligible hardness increase during cold rolling, too. This behaviour, untypical for metals, can be explained by the generation of new martensite and by the fact that the hardness of martensite is smaller than the hardness of austenite. Some aging effects of the specimen after cold rolling, which lead to decrease of damping, were detected. This can be explained by pinning of moveable interfaces by point defects and/or retransformation of martensite into austenite.

Survival of Goss Grains during Cold Rolling of a Silicon Steel Single Crystal

2005 ◽  
Vol 495-497 ◽  
pp. 1061-1066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothée Dorner ◽  
Ludger Lahn ◽  
Stefan Zaefferer
Keyword(s):  
Cold Rolling ◽  
Single Crystal ◽  
High Strain ◽  
Shear Bands ◽  
Rolling Process ◽  
Silicon Steel ◽  
Oriented Crystal ◽  
Cold Rolled ◽  
Goss Orientation ◽  
Crystal Volume

A silicon steel single crystal with initial Goss orientation, i.e. the {110}<001> orientation, was cold rolled up to 89 % thickness reduction. Most of the crystal volume rotates into the two symmetrical equivalent {111}<112> orientations. However, a weak Goss component is still present after high strain, although the Goss orientation is mechanically instable under plane strain loading. Two types of Goss-oriented crystal volumes are found in the highly deformed material. We suggest that their origin is different. The Goss-oriented regions that are observed within shear bands form during the cold rolling process. In contrast, those Goss-oriented crystal volumes that are found inside of microbands survive the cold rolling.

Effect of Cold Rolling Process on the Microstructure and Corrosion Behaviors of 316L Stainless Steel in Simulated Body Fluids

2014 ◽  
Vol 548-549 ◽  
pp. 310-315
Author(s):  
W.M.F.W. Mohamad ◽  
M.Z. Selamat ◽  
B. Bundjali ◽  
M. Musa
Keyword(s):  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Cold Rolling ◽  
316L Stainless Steel ◽  
Rolling Process ◽  
Optical Microscope ◽  
Body Fluids ◽  
Breakdown Potential ◽  
Corrosion Behaviors ◽  
Cold Rolled ◽  
Simulated Body Fluids

This present paper is aims to study the influence of cold rolling process on the microstructure and corrosion behaviors of 316L stainless steel using potentiodynamics polarization testing techniques. The steel with initial thickness of 2.0 mm was unidirectional cold rolled to 10%, 30% and 50% reduction in thickness. The corrosion behaviors of the cold rolled steels were evaluated in phosphate buffered saline (PBS) as their simulated body fluids environment. The pH and temperature of the solution was maintained at 7.31 and 37°C and took approximately 5 hours for each individual test. The microstructure observations of the steels were studied using optical microscope and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The results showed that the cold rolling process has modified the microstructure of 316L stainless steel by producing extensive surface defects. The microstructure modifications of the cold-rolled steel caused to enhance the corrosion resistance by lowering its corrosion rate to 23% and reduce the pitting resistance by lowering its breakdown potential to 61%. The pit corrosion was extensively appeared after reaching the breakdown potential.

Recognition and Control of the Influence Factors on the Surface Defects of Cold Rolled Strip with Emulsion Lubrication

2013 ◽  
Vol 456 ◽  
pp. 498-502
Author(s):  
Yan Li ◽  
Jian Lin Sun
Keyword(s):  
Cold Rolling ◽  
Surface Quality ◽  
Surface Defects ◽  
Surface Condition ◽  
Influence Factors ◽  
Black Spot ◽  
Rolling Process ◽  
Rolled Strip ◽  
Strip Surface ◽  
Cold Rolled

In cold rolling, good surface quality should be maintained with the requirement of constant increasing productivity. Oil-in-water (O/W) emulsions are widely used in cold rolled strips due to their good characteristics as lubricants and coolants. The strip surface defect is one of the central quality problems in the rolling process. A poor strip surface quality after cold rolling may have a large impact on the downstream process, like annealing, galvanization and painting. The surface condition could be deteriorated in many forms affected by various factors. However, few reports focused on the effect of the lubricating property of emulsion on the final surface quality. In this paper, the general surface defects of cold rolled strips such as watermark defects, black spot defects, heat scratches and corrosion defects were analyzed by scan electron microscope (SEM) and energy spectrum analysis (EDS) and the morphology and composition of the defects have been researched. The reason of the surface defects generated is analyzed, and the factors which introduce the surface defects during rolling process are presented. Therefore, it has an important significance to identify the features of the surface defects and put forward the solution measures.

Effects of Normalizing Annealing on the Recrystallization Texture of 4.2wt.%Si Non-Oriented Electrical Steel Thin Sheets

2012 ◽  
Vol 535-537 ◽  
pp. 615-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinlong Liu ◽  
Yu Hui Sha ◽  
Yong Chuang Yao ◽  
Fang Zhang ◽  
Liang Zuo
Keyword(s):  
Cold Rolling ◽  
Recrystallization Texture ◽  
Electrical Steel ◽  
Shear Bands ◽  
Rolling Process ◽  
Thin Sheets ◽  
Conventional Procedure ◽  
Cold Rolling And Annealing ◽  
Cold Rolled ◽  
Normalizing Annealing

The 4.2wt.%Si non-oriented electrical steel thin sheets with the thickness of 0.30mm were produced by the conventional procedure including hot rolling, cold rolling and annealing. The recrystallization texture was analyzed with emphasis on the effect of normalizing annealing. The results show that the  fiber with peak at {111} is weaker and η fiber is stronger in the sheets with normalizing annealing than those without normalizing annealing, either under the cold rolled reduction of 77% or 86%. Effects of normalizing annealing on the recrystallization texture can be explained in terms of the characteristic of the shear bands formed during cold rolling process.

scholarly journals Production and characterization of experimental low noise trailing edges made of cold rolled porous aluminum with special attention to the influence of cold rolling on the mechanical stability of the investigated materials

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörn Tychsen ◽  
Joachim Rösler
Keyword(s):  
Cold Rolling ◽  
Porous Materials ◽  
Rolling Process ◽  
Low Noise ◽  
Important Method ◽  
Porous Aluminum ◽  
Trailing Edges ◽  
Cold Rolled ◽  
Flow Resistivity

AbstractIn the framework of the CRC 880 “Fundamentals of high-lift for future civil air craft” methods for the reduction of aircraft noise are investigated. An important method for this noise reduction is the usage of porous material as low noise trailing edges. To improve the aeroacoustic properties of porous materials, an innovative rolling process was established by Tychsen et al. (Metals 8:598, 2018). Here, the rolling process is described as it is used as an important method for the production of samples. The influence of cold rolling on two different porous materials namely porous aluminum 80–110 (PA 80–110) and PA 120–150 is investigated. Important characteristics studied are the porosity, mechanical properties and the dependence of flow resistivity from the degree of deformation. The flow resistivity is of particular interest as the aeroacoustic performance is significantly influenced by it. The results are then compared to the findings for PA 200–250, which was investigated in Tychsen et al. (Metals 8:598, 2018). Lastly, experimental trailing edges made out of cold rolled porous aluminum with a gradient in thickness reduction are shown. The characterization of the aeroacoustic behavior is not part of this study. Reference is made to Rossignol et al. (Int J Aeroacoust 19:365–384, 2020), where trailing edges shown here are characterized aeroacoustically. The findings shown here demonstrate that different porous materials can be tailored by cold rolling without negative impact on the mechanical behavior. It is proven that the new rolling process is a versatile tool for the production of gradient porous material.

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