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Optimisation and thermo-mechanical analysis of a coated steam dual pipe system for use in advanced ultra-supercritical power plant (2020)
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Guo, X. F., Benaarbia, A., Sun, W., Becker, A., Morris, A., Pavier, M., …Wales, C. (2020). Optimisation and thermo-mechanical analysis of a coated steam dual pipe system for use in advanced ultra-supercritical power plant. International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping, 186, Article 104157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpvp.2020.104157

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd Improving the energy efficiency of power plants by increasing steam operating temperature up to 700 °C can be achieved using novel engineering design concepts such as coated steam pipe systems. This paper presents an optimised des... Read More about Optimisation and thermo-mechanical analysis of a coated steam dual pipe system for use in advanced ultra-supercritical power plant.

High temperature strain heterogeneities tracking within hole-specimens of FV566 turbine steel via digital image correlation (2020)
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Bao, J., Benaarbia, A., Bao, S., Guo, X., Wang, Y., & Sun, W. (2020). High temperature strain heterogeneities tracking within hole-specimens of FV566 turbine steel via digital image correlation. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 777, Article 139068. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2020.139068

This paper presents experimental and numerical investigations to study spatial-temporal distributions of strain heterogeneities within a FV566 turbine rotor steel subjected to high temperature conditions. Strain field were determined during monotonic... Read More about High temperature strain heterogeneities tracking within hole-specimens of FV566 turbine steel via digital image correlation.

On the microstructural evolution in 12% Cr turbine steel during low cycle fatigue at elevated temperature (2019)
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Rae, Y., Guo, X., Benaarbia, A., Neate, N., & Sun, W. (2020). On the microstructural evolution in 12% Cr turbine steel during low cycle fatigue at elevated temperature. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 773, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2019.138864

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. In order to better understand the physical process of deformation and cyclic softening a 12% Cr martensitic stainless steel FV566 has been cyclically tested at high temperature in strain control. Increase in temperature was found... Read More about On the microstructural evolution in 12% Cr turbine steel during low cycle fatigue at elevated temperature.

Thermal and stress analyses of a novel coated steam dual pipe system for use in advanced ultra-supercritical power plant (2019)
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Sun, W., & Becker, A. (2019). Thermal and stress analyses of a novel coated steam dual pipe system for use in advanced ultra-supercritical power plant. International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping, 176, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpvp.2019.103933

Improving the energy efficiency of advanced ultra-supercritical power plants, by increasing steam operating temperature up to 700?, can be achieved, at reduced cost, by using novel engineering design concepts, such as coated steam pipe systems manufa... Read More about Thermal and stress analyses of a novel coated steam dual pipe system for use in advanced ultra-supercritical power plant.