New Needs of Fracture Mechanic Analysis at Design and Operation Level: Status of French Nuclear Mechanical Codes

Based on ASME Boilers and Pressure Vessels Code the major fracture mechanic analysis is limited to protection of class 1 components to brittle fracture. All the Operators of future plants have to enlarge the scope of these analyses to different concepts, at design or operation stage: - brittle and ductile analysis of hypothetical large flaw - leak before break approach - break exclusion concept - incredibility of failure of high integrity components - end of fabrication acceptable defect - in-service inspection performance - acceptable standards in operation - Long Term Operation (LTO) All these requirements needs a procedure, an analysis method with material properties and criteria. After a short overview of each topic, the paper will present how RCC-M, RSE-M French Codes and ASME III and XI take care of all these new modern regulatory requirements.

Fracture Mechanic Analysis for Package Delamination

Delamination and crack were considered as significant failures in electronic packaging. For these circumstances, Modified Crack Closure Integral method was tested and applied to determine crack growth rate and for the purpose to understand failures. TQFP package was successfully verified by using the method. A PBGA package was modeled for thermal distribution and moisture concentration in order to calculate vapor pressure acted on crack. The energy release rate was the main concern among fracture parameters, which had been proven fully related with vapor pressure and crack length ratio in popcorn cracking.