Advanced Materials for Severe Service Applications, 1987

The material covered in the manuscripts published herein was subjected to public inquiry during the Japan-US Joint Seminar on Materials for Severe Service Conditions during 19-23 May 1986 at the Toranomon Pastral Guest House in Minato-Ku, Tokyo, Japan. This seminar was the latest in a series on advanced materials and applications initiated in the early 1970s by Professor T. Kanazawa of Japan and Professor A. S. Kobayashi of the United States. The 1986 seminar was organized by the undersigned with the able assistance of Professor H. Kobayashi and Dr H. Nakamura of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Dr K. Minakawa of the Nippon Kokan Technical Research Center. The semi­ nar was sponsored by the US National Science Foundation and by the Japan Society for Promotion of Science. This Proceedings volume is offered for its. reference value in the enhancement of the understanding of the behavior of advanced struc­ tural materials for design applications involving adverse loading con­ ditions and severe environments. During the seminar attempts were also made to extract priority issues of possible broad impact on science or technology, and to articulate possible guidelines for action plans.

1. A Review of Japanese Research on Materials Design for Severe Service Conditions.- 2. Infringement of Defect Tolerant Castings on Traditional Wrought Superalloy Applications.- 3. Welding of Materials for Use in Severe Service Conditions.- 4. Dynamic Stress Intensity Factor versus Crack Velocity Relation.- 5. Quantitative Evaluation of Microcracking in Alloys and Ceramics.- 6. Initial Crack Growth Tearing Resistance in Transformation Toughened Ceramics.- 7. Some Aspects of the High Temperature Performance of Ceramics and Ceramic Composites.- 8. Fracture and Elevated-Temperature Static-Fatigue of Ceramics Containing Small Flaws.- 9. Protection of Alloys from Erosion and Corrosion at Elevated Temperatures.- 10. Lifetime Analysis of First Wall Materials Exposed to High Temperature and High Energy Neutrons in a Fusion Reactor.- 11. Physical and Mechanical Approaches to Cyclic Constitutive Relationships and Life Evaluation of Structural Materials in Biaxial Low-Cycle Fatigue at High Temperatures.- 12. Creep-Fatigue-Hot Corrosion Interactions in High Temperature Structural Alloys.- 13. Material Characterization and Material Requirement of the High-Temperature Components of the High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor.- 14. Creep, Fatigue and Environment Interactions in Cr-Mo Steels.- 15. Material Degradation and Life-Time Prediction of Fossil Power Plant Components.- 16. Structural Materials for Cryogenic Use.- 17. Cryogenic Fatigue Design of Austenitic Stainless Steels for Superconducting Magnet Applications.- 18. Fatigue Behavior of High-Manganese Steel at Cryogenic Temperature.- 19. Fatigue Crack Growth at Elevated Temperature in Ferritic Steels.- 20. Fatigue Crack Growth Resistance of Structural Materials in Vacuum.- 21. Role of Closure Mechanisms on Fatigue Crack Growth in Steels under Service Conditions.- 22. Fatigue Strength of Shot Peened Carburized Steel.- 23. Mode I Propagation of Delamination Fatigue Cracks in CFRP.- 24. Dynamic and Cyclic Stress Corrosion Cracking Resistance of Metals.- 25. Local Corrosion of Welds of 60 kgf/mm2 Class Steels for Ice-Breaking Ships.- List of Participants.