Nondestructive characterization hydrogen-charged zircaloys with a laser ultrasound technique

Che Hua Yang*, Yu An Lai

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A laser ultrasound technique (LUT) is reported for nondestructive characterization of hydrogen concentration (HC) in Zr-4 cladding tubes. With the LUT, ultrasonic waves propagating in the Zircaloy tubes with different HC are generated and detected remotely by optical means. By measuring the dispersion spectra with the LUT, relations between the dispersion spectra and the HC of the Zircaloy tubes are established. HC ranging from 0 to 1200 ppm in the Zircaloy tubes are successfully discriminated by the LUT with a resolution of 200 ppm.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)410-413
Number of pages4
JournalKey Engineering Materials
Volume321-323 I
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006

Keywords

  • Guided waves
  • Hydrogen
  • Laser ultrasound
  • Zircaloy

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