Prevention of Wear Problems in PWR Steam Generators - an Annotated Bibliography. Final Report

摘要

Specific wear mechanisms which may be among the initiating causes for loss of tube integrity in the steam generators of pressurized water reactors (PWR) are reviewed. These mechanisms are: solid particle impact erosion, liquid droplet impact erosion, cavitation erosion, fretting, erosion-corrosion, and other electro-chemical phenomena. The reviews, in the form of annotated bibliographies, focus on studies which involved either materials and/or geometries and operating conditions relevant to PWR steam generators. The objective of this study was to provide a state-of-the-art documentation of the literature on wear mechanisms - thus enabling either a researcher, vendor, or utility to more readily locate further information about his specific concerns. (ERA citation 08:005065)