Abstract:In April of 2008, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Office of Nuclear Regulation released a draft Regulatory Issue Summary (RIS) regarding fatigue analysis of nuclear power plant components. The final RIS was published in December of 2008 with little modification. At issue in the RIS was the use of a single stress term for use with Green’s Functions, as opposed to the ASME Code, Section III method of combining all six stress components, which could potentially lead to non-conservative results in a fatig… Show more
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