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Design, Life-Time and Residual Life

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Materials investigations and materials data are used for the design of nuclear plants, for assessment of possible damage and for the definition of plant life management and plant life extension programmes. This requires the transfer of materials data into design rules and damage assessment procedures. A very important task concerns the conversion of laboratory data which are usually the result of uniaxial tests into multiaxial loading conditions in a machine. Design and safety assessments are done on the basis of design codes describing design procedures and providing also the necessary design data. During operation the design life is consumed and damage (creep, fatigue, corrosion, radiation etc.) develops which needs concepts for damage monitoring (including non-destructive evaluation). Based on the condition of the plant concepts for plant life management and (if required) plant life extension must be developed. The whole chain from multiaxiality to plant life extension is briefly outlined in this chapter.

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