Characterization of zirconium hydride orientations in Zircaloy cladding tubes with a laser ultrasound technique

Cheng Hung Yeh*, Che Hua Yang

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Abstract

This research is focused on characterizing Zircaloy cladding tubes with different concentration ratios between radially(R) orientated hydrides and circumferential(C) ones. A procedure corporate with an experimental technique and an inversion algorism is used to investigate the effects of R/C ratio on the dispersion spectra of GW. A laser ultrasound technique (LUT) is used to measure the dispersions of circumferentially guided waves (CGW) propagating along the circumferential direction of the cladding tubes. An inversion algorism based on simplex method is used to extract interested properties from the measured GW dispersion spectra. It is shown that the procedure introduced in the current research is able to relate the phase velocities with hydrogen concentration. In the meanwhile, this procedure is able to distinguish the R/C ratio in a quantitative way as well. It is also found out that the bulk elastic modulus increases as the R/C ratio increases.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationReview of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation
Pages1340-1345
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event36th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, QNDE - Kingston, RI, United States
Duration: 26 07 200931 07 2009

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume1211
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

Conference36th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, QNDE
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityKingston, RI
Period26/07/0931/07/09

Keywords

  • Hydride
  • Laser ultrasound
  • Nuclear
  • Radial
  • Zircaloy

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