摘要:
A method is provided for measuring crack growth in a solid comprising a sensor utilizing potential or voltage drop measurements across a preformed and propagating crack. Preferably the sensor is representative of a structural component and is exposed to an aggressive environment like that in which the structural component operates. Measured voltage values are plotted versus a distance at which the voltages are measured by a plurality of pairs of probes, and intercept values are obtained and used in combination with previously measured crack lengths in calculating subsequent crack lengths of a propagating crack.
摘要:
An apparatus and a method for measuring and controlling the crack growth rate within a double cantilever beam type test specimen. The arms of the test specimen are fitted with a pressure-actuated bellows to induce a predetermined load and with a sensing assembly to provide feedback on the amount of beam displacement resulting from application of that load. In this manner a loaded test specimen may be remotely mounted and adjusted inside the reactor pressure vessel or piping of a nuclear reactor in order to maintain a stress intensity which is constant or which varies in a predetermined manner for inducing stress corrosion cracking or corrosion fatigue in the specimen.