METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED CRACK BEHAVIOR PREDICTION DETERMINATION

摘要

A method of predicting component crack behavior in a nuclear reactor provides access to a crack growth behavior model (16) over a global network (252). A user inputs water chemistry and material characteristics of a particular nuclear reactor and can perform crack growth rate predictions by accessing the behavior model over the computer network. A crack growth prediction profile or crack growth based result is output over the network according to an analysis by the behavior model.