Model for predicting vessel failure probabilities including the effects of service inspection and flaw sizing errors

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 200, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 353-369

  Khaleel, M A ^a   Simonen, F A ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; INSPECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR REACTORS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

FLAW SIZING; LATIN HYPERCUBE APPROACH; REACTOR PRESSURE VESSELS;

PRESSURE VESSELS;

EID: 0033688005     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(00)00244-2     Document Type: Article

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