Fracture toughness evaluation of martensitic steel for fast reactor wrapper tube thermal aged using miniaturized test technique

Tanno, Takashi  ; Shizukawa, Yuta ; Fujita, Koji

The evaluation of the fracture toughness of thermal-aged PNC-FMS was conducted using the miniature three-point bending fracture toughness evaluation technique under development. The results implied that although the Charpy impact properties of PNC-FMS after thermal aging for 6000 hours at 600C degraded, the fracture toughness at room temperature did not degraded. Furthermore, as a result of comparing the cases where fatigue pre-crack was introduced to the test specimen before and after thermal aging, it was found that there was no significant difference under the present thermal aging conditions.