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Candidates for leadership provide statements: ANS Board of Directors
With the annual ANS election right around the corner, American Nuclear Society members will be going to the polls to vote for a vice president/president-elect, treasurer, and members-at-large for the Board of Directors. In January, Nuclear News published statements from candidates for vice president/president-elect and treasurer. This month, we are featuring statements from each nominee for the Board of Directors.
G. J. Zeman, D. L. Smith
Nuclear Technology | Volume 42 | Number 1 | January 1979 | Pages 82-89
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32164
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Fatigue tests were conducted in sodium to investigate the influence of an elevated temperature sodium environment on the low cycle fatigue behavior of Types 304 and 316 stainless steel The fatigue tests were conducted at 550°C in sodium of controlled purity, namely, 1 ppm oxygen and 0.3 ppm carbon, at a strain rate of 4 × 10−3s−1. The fatigue life of annealed Type 316 stainless steel was substantially greater when tested in sodium than when tested in air, whereas the test environment had little influence on the fatigue life of Type 304 stainless steel. The effects of long-term sodium preexposure were also investigated. An 18-Ms (5000-h) preexposure to sodium produced little effect on the fatigue life of Type 316 stainless steel tested in sodium. However, a similar sodium exposure had a significant effect on the fatigue behavior of Type 304 stainless steel.
