Engineering failure assessment methods applied to pressurized components

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 200, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 371-382

  Zerbst, U ^a   Hamann, R ^b   Beeck, F ^a   Scheider, I ^a   Brocks, W ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b DNV GL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; NUCLEAR REACTORS;

CRACK DRIVING FORCE METHOD; FAILURE ASSESSMENT DIAGRAM METHOD; REACTOR PRESSURE VESSELS;

PRESSURE VESSELS;

EID: 0033688208     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(00)00252-1     Document Type: Article

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