Pressure vessel embrittlement predictions based on a composite model of copper precipitation and point defect clustering

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn 1270, Issue , 1996, Pages 25-58

  Stoller, Roger E ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Copper precipitates; Displacement rate; Embrittlement; Hardening; Irradiation temperature; Modeling; Point defect clusters; Pressure vessel steels

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; COPPER; IRRADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRUCTURE; POINT DEFECTS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRESSURE VESSELS; RADIATION HARDENING; STEEL; TEMPERATURE; YIELD STRESS;

COPPER RICH PRECIPITATE; DISPLACEMENT RATE; EXTRAPOLATION; POINT DEFECT CLUSTERS; POWER REACTOR SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMS; REACTOR PRESSURE VESSEL EMBRITTLEMENT;

EMBRITTLEMENT;

EID: 0030218453     PISSN: 00660558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1520/stp16466s     Document Type: Article

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