A statistical model for the analysis and prediction of the effect of neutron irradiation on Charpy impact energy curves

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 165, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 43-56

  Windle, P L ^a   Crowder, M ^b   Moskovic, R ^c  

^a Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c Nuclear Electric plc   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DEFECTS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PRESSURE VESSELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BURR DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; CHARPY ABSORBED ENERGY MEASUREMENTS; CHARPY IMPACT ENERGY CURVES; CHARPY TRANSITION CURVES; IRRADIATION DAMAGE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

NEUTRON IRRADIATION;

EID: 0030564623     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0029-5493(96)01198-3     Document Type: Article

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