Mechanical Behaviour of Alloy 800 Steam Generator Tube With a Circumferential Crack-Like Throughwall Flaw

This paper presents an experimental and numerical study of the mechanical behaviour of Alloy 800 tubes with a circumferential crack-like throughwall flaw. The crack-like throughwall flaw was simulated as a slot fabricated by Electron Discharge Machining (EDM). A digital image correlation (DIC) method is employed to measure the distribution of strain and the deformed EDM slot profile during the tension test. A Finite Element Analysis (FEA) model …