Application of intercritical heat treatment to improve toughness of SA508 Cl.3 reactor pressure vessel steel

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 194, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 161-177

  Ahn, Yeon Sang ^b   Kim, Hong Deok ^a   Byun, Thak Sang ^a   Oh, Yong Jun ^a   Kim, Gil Moo ^b   Hong, Jun Hwa ^a  

^a Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

^b Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; COOLING; DUCTILITY; EMBRITTLEMENT; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; METALLOGRAPHIC MICROSTRUCTURE; PRESSURE VESSELS; QUENCHING; STAINLESS STEEL; STEEL HEAT TREATMENT; TEMPERING; TOUGHNESS;

DUCTILE-TO-BRITTLE TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; INTERCRITICAL HEAT TREATMENT; STAINLESS STEEL 508 CL.3;

WATER COOLED REACTORS;

EID: 0033279112     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(99)00196-X     Document Type: Article

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