Induced nuclear reactions: processes – systems – and elements – Fission reactor material treatment – Impurity removal
Patent
1993-01-25
1994-04-19
Wasil, Daniel D.
Induced nuclear reactions: processes, systems, and elements
Fission reactor material treatment
Impurity removal
376305, 134 1, 134 34, 2391022, G21C 1900
Patent
active
053053613
ABSTRACT:
A water jet peening method in which a pressurized water jet flow containing cavities is jetted through a nozzle having a velocity increasing orifice portion and a horn-like jetting hole formed continuously with the velocity increasing orifice portion to impinge against a surface of a metallic material immersed in water and to cause the cavities to collapse at the surface of the metallic member, and a tensile plastic deformation is caused in a surface layer of the metallic material by a local high pressure generated by the impingement and the collapse so that a residual tensile stress in the surface of the metallic member is reduced. In this method, the nozzle is vibrated so that vibration-induced cavities are formed in the vicinity of a nozzle wall surface, and the vibration-induced cavities are caused to impinge against the surface of the metallic member by the pressurized water jet flow containing cavities. It is thereby possible to promote the generation of cavities even in a case where pure water existing in a nuclear reactor and scant of nuclei from which cavities will be generated is used in peening of an internal structual member of the reactor.
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Enomoto Kunio
Kurosawa Koichi
Mochizuki Masahito
Otaka Masahiro
Saito Hideyo
Hitachi , Ltd.
Wasil Daniel D.
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