On the applicability of the small punch test to the characterization of the 1CrMoV aged steel: Mechanical testing and numerical analysis.

Highlights: [•] We carried out tensile and small punch tests on two different lots of 1CrMoV steel. [•] One lot consisted of new material, the second one underwent 195,700 operating hours. [•] Differences in the small punch tests were not confirmed by tensile tests. [•] We carried out inverse analysis on small punch test to derive the mechanical properties. [•] We proposed a new method for the identification of the material parameters. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]