A Review of miniature specimen tensile test method of tungsten at elevated temperature

  Makwana Dhaval Natvarlal,  Mr. A. K. Patel,  Dr. K. G. Dave

Tungsten is the key material for high heat flux components of divertor in nuclear fusion reactor. The temperature range of high heat flux components is around 1200-2200 °C. Very limited database is available for tungsten at higher temperature. So, characterization of tungsten material at higher temperature is very much essential. Miniature specimen tensile testing technique is useful to characterize tungsten for life assessment of plasma facing component, characterization of neutron irradiated specimen and characterization of various brazed and diffusion bonded joint, characterization of sintered pallets etc. The purpose of the review of small size specimen test techniques is to carry out design of miniature specimen for high temperature tensile testing of tungsten, effect of geometry on material properties and validation of test results using finite element analysis.

Keywords- Miniature specimen, tungsten material, hot tensile test, finite element analysis, Abaqus.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1604024
Page Number(s) - 132-139
Pubished in - Volume 4 | Issue 4 | October 2016
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Makwana Dhaval Natvarlal,  Mr. A. K. Patel,  Dr. K. G. Dave,   "A Review of miniature specimen tensile test method of tungsten at elevated temperature", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.4, Issue 4, pp.132-139, October 2016, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1604024.pdf