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Investigating the impact of aging on the mechanical properties of steel extracted from the hull of the Royal Canadian Navy ship Ex-HMCS Iroquois

2025· article· en· W4409840697 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueOcean Engineering · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicStructural Integrity and Reliability Analysis
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCapital Regional DistrictDefence Research and Development CanadaAmerican Bureau of Shipping
KeywordsHullNavyAeronauticsEngineeringMarine engineeringForensic engineeringNaval architectureHistoryArchaeology

Abstract

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This paper presents the research results of testing the mechanical properties and fracture surfaces of aged steel components that were extracted from the hull of the retired Royal Canadian Navy Destroyer ex-HMCS Iroquois. A study is held to investigate the aged steel of the retired ship to determine the impact of aging on the mechanical properties of the steel and identifying its capability to meet the design requirements after more than 40 years of service under various conditions. A total number of 78 specimens were subjected to mechanical and microstructural characterization. The tests included uniaxial tensile behavior analysis of 30 different specimens, Rockwell hardness testing for 8 specimens at 48 locations, fracture energy measurement through Charpy impact test of 25 specimens and fracture surface characterization of 15 distinct specimens. Average yield strength and ultimate strength for the tested aged steels were 347 MPa and 502 MPa respectively. In addition, average Rockwell hardness B was 80 HRB and ductile to brittle temperatures were calculated to be −30 °C, −20 °C and −30 °C for the plate, web and flange respectively. The results presented remarkable alignment of properties with the design requirements even after 40 years of service in various conditions. • Mechanical characterization of aged steel specimens extracted from the retired ex-HMCS Iroquois destroyer. • Mechanical Characterization included tensile tests, Charpy tests and Rockwell hardness tests. • Fracture surface morphological characterization was performed using SEM and phase identification was also applied using EDS. • Mechanical Characterization results showed that the IROQ-Steel met design requirement range after 40 years of service. • Charpy test fracture surfaces demonstrated a full transition from ductile to brittle behavior as impact test temperature decreased.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.178
Threshold uncertainty score0.964

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Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.203
Teacher spread0.188 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it