The importance of oxide morphology for the oxidation rate of zirconium alloys

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn 1295, Issue , 1996, Pages 55-73

  Wikmark, Gunnar ^a   Rudling, Peter ^a   Lehtinen, Börje ^b   Hutchinson, Bevis ^b   Oscarsson, Anders ^b   Ahlberg, Elisabet ^c  

^a ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b Institute of Materials Research   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Corrosion; Film stress; Impedance spectroscopy; Porosity; SEM; Tetragonal phase; X ray diffraction; Zirconium alloys

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; DISSOLUTION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MORPHOLOGY; OXIDATION; POROSITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRESS RELAXATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; ZIRCONIA;

METAL OXIDE INTERFACE; OXIDE GROWTH RATE;

ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 0030289408     PISSN: 00660558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1520/stp16167s     Document Type: Article

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