Fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) is used in a wide range of applications due to its light weight, high strength, excellent corrosion resistance and flexible processability. Although nuclear power plants may have a chance to use FRP as structural and equipment materials in the future, its radiation effect is not well known so far. Thus, we tried to evaluate its radiation degradation non-destructively using "AE (Acoustic Emission) digital hammering inspection". Two types of FRP test specimens of glass fiber and...
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Development of nondestructive inspection system for soundness diagnosis of FRP

Insulation degradation of cable insulation causes fire due to electric leakage. Cable insulating materials laid in nuclear power plants deteriorate over time, heat and influence of radiation. Here we investigated the degradation tendency of insulating materials by radiation irradiation by hammering inspection using AE sensor. As a result, for any cable insulation material, curing of insulating material with irradiation could be detected as a change in natural frequency. From here, the applicability of AE ha...
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Development of nondestructive inspection system for soundness diagnosis of cable insulating material

We reported previously the deterioration tendency of cable insulation materials used in nuclear power plants due to irradiation and the applicability of AE (Acoustic Emission) digital hammering inspection to detect the deterioration nondestructively by comparing the natural frequencies before and after the irradiation. In this study, we selected two kinds of triple core cables which are often utilized in nuclear power plants. The natural peak frequency increased due to the increase of irradiation dose, and ...
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Development of nondestructive inspection system for soundness diagnosis of cable insulating material (2)