| Issue |
EPJ Nuclear Sci. Technol.
Volume 6, 2020
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 57 | |
| Number of page(s) | 12 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2020019 | |
| Published online | 10 November 2020 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2020019
Regular Article
Empirical estimation of uncertainties of Charpy impact testing transition temperatures for an RPV steel
Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, Service de Recherches Métallurgiques Appliquées, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
* e-mail: Bernard.Marini@cea.fr
Received:
28
April
2020
Received in final form:
21
August
2020
Accepted:
16
October
2020
Published online: 10 November 2020
The aim of the present work is to derive empirically a simple expression of the uncertainties on Charpy transition temperatures (TT), which depends only on the test temperatures and the number of tests at each of these temperatures. Calculations of the TT uncertainties of a RPV steel are performed based on an empirical representation of Charpy test results and a Monte Carlo procedure to generate large numbers of data sets for different test matrices. Applying usual procedures to determine the TT to the generated data sets gives access to the distributions of these quantities from which the uncertainties are calculated.An analytical expression for these uncertainties is proposed.
© B. Marini, published by EDP Sciences, 2020
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