Monitoring Crack Advance Using Acoustic Emission and Combined Acoustic Emission and Potential Drop in Zr-2.5%Nb

Journal of Testing and Evaluation

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 15-25

  Lin, G ^a   Skrzypek, S ^b   Li, D ^c   Eadie, R L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Cracow Inst of Mining and Metall   (Poland)

^c Ctrl Iron and Stl Res Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission (AE); Crack advance measurement; Delayed hydride cracking; Potential drop (PD); Zr 2.5 nb

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS;

CRACK ADVANCE MEASUREMENT; DELAYED HYDRIDE CRACKING; POTENTIAL DROP;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 0031653619     PISSN: 00903973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jte11965j     Document Type: Article

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