Cladding benefits

As mentioned above, insulation applied to externally located equipment can be subjected to rain and weather contamination if the outer cladding fails. Insulants with water-repellant, water-tolerant or free-draining properties offer an additional benefit in this type of application. In the structural field insulants used as cavity wall fills must be of those types specially treated and designed for this application. 

Concrete dampproofers are integral admixtures that alter the concrete surface so that it becomes water repellent, or less wettable . This is illustrated in Fig. 4.1, which shows a close up of a water drop on a surface of a concrete that has had a dampproofer incorporated into it. This water repellency conferred on the concrete is only effective in preventing water from entering the surface when the applied pressure is small, e.g. rainfall in windy conditions, or capillary rise. The latter effect is shown in Fig. 4.2. In view of this, these materials are used normally for improving the quality of concrete pavers, tiles, bricks, blocks and cladding panels where the additional benefits of reduced efflorescence, the maintenance of clean surfaces and the more even drying out of adjacent bricks and panels are also obtained. 

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Russia General rules of PNAE-G-7-008-89 None Primarily deterministic, but probabilistic can be used Semi-elliptical surface flaws up to ]i-Tdepth with length = %-7 initiation only with no safety factor on /Cic cladding effects considered no benefit for warm prestressing Pf < 1 x 10 Vreactor year, if used... 

France General rules of RCC-M, Appendix ZG None Deterministic Combination of flaw sizes and safety factors depending upon transient categories cladding effects considered no benefit of warm prestressing crack arrest allowed only for 4 category transients... 

Japan JEAC 4206 Simplified generic method of a comparison with Ktc curve Deterministic Size of semi-elliptic surface flaw approximately two times reliably detectable flaw depth with length six times the depth cladding effects to thermal analysis considered no benefit of warm prestressing... 

The NRC has amended 10 CFR 50.46 Appendix K to permit an alternative ECCS analysis method in addition to the conservative approach to ECCS analysis. This alternative consists of a realistic ECCS analysis plus an accounting for the uncertainty of the calculation in the adverse direction. This method should produce a reduced calculated peak clad temperature and would, therefore be beneficial with respect to plant operation and lifetime. The actual degree of benefit would, however, vary from vendor to vendor due to design differences. 

The barrier layer is a more resistant material than the core alloy. Its real benefit occurs when the clad surface is inadvertently scratched or otherwise damaged or if natural pitting corrosion of the cladding has reached the core. Under these circumstances the electrochemical nature of the cladding comes into play. Further corrosion spreads laterally, confining itself to the cladding rather than penetrating into the core. 

The trade-off between clad and nnclad dielectric materials follows a benefit analysis similar to that used for subtractive versus additive processing. Copper-clad-based material is fabricated using standard practices familiar to most shops. However, it innately generates more waste and has a higher cost due to the subtractive nature of the manufacturing sequence. In addition, copper-clad materials demonstrate limitations in fine-line capability similar to those seen with standard manufacturing methods used today. 

A related example of these offsetting effects is the successful implementation of SCW oxidation technology, utihzmg titanium-clad reactors in a cost-effective manner. For SCW oxidation, the added benefit of using the exothermic destruction reactions to provide heat to the system also provides a major reduction in processing costs. 

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