Investigation of the degradation characteristics for casting stainless steel, CF8M, under high temperatures

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 198, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 227-240

  Kwon, Jae Do ^a   Park, Joong Cheul ^a   Lee, Yong Son ^a   Lee, Woo Ho ^b   Park, Youn Won ^b  

^a Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety (KINS)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING SYSTEMS; CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE TESTING; HIGH TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; IMPACT TESTING; METALLOGRAPHIC MICROSTRUCTURE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PYROLYSIS; QUENCHING; STEEL CASTINGS; TENSILE TESTING; VICKERS HARDNESS TESTING;

CAST DUPLEX STAINLESS STEEL; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH RATE;

STAINLESS STEEL;

EID: 0033728241     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(99)00315-5     Document Type: Article

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