Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: e0d690ec-277f-4fe2-b92f-7f95d0f589a7
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Preparing Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics (Rev. 0)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2133/ML21334A158.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-05
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Section ID: RG-1.245
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Content:
......................................... 6 Consideration of International Standards ......................................................................................... 6 Regulatory Position C.1 ................................................................................................................... 8 1. General Considerations ............................................................................................................ 8 1.1. Graded Approach ........................................................................................................... 8 1.2. Analytical Steps in a Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics Analysis ................................. 8 Regulatory Position C.2 ................................................................................................................. 10 2. Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics Analysis and Submittal Contents...................................... 10 2.1. Regulatory Context ...................................................................................................... 10 2.2. Information Made Available to the NRC Staff with a Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics Submittal ................................................................................................... 10 2.3. Quantities of Interest and Acceptance Criteria ............................................................ 11 2.4. Software Quality Assurance and Verification and Validation ..................................... 11 2.5. Models ......................................................................................................................... 14 2.6. Inputs ........................................................................................................................... 16 2.7. Uncertainty Propagation .............................................................................................. 18 2.8. Convergence