Probabilistic and deterministic investigation on single crack growth in dissimilar metal welds of a piping system

Probabilistic and deterministic integrity analyses of piping are important issues with regard to the integrity and reliability of nuclear power plant (NPP) components. Since there is an ongoing controversial discussion concerning the positive and negative influence of weld residual stress (WRS) on the failure probabilities of piping with dissimilar metal welds (DMWs), we herewith present the analysis of a representative straight pipe with DMW in...