Thermal shock behaviour of industrial carbon anodes

Carbon

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1401-1409

  Liu, Tianshun ^a   Tomsett, Alan ^b   Zhang, Hao ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b PO Box 316 ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; CARBON; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SHOCK TESTING; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

THERMAL SHOCK RESISTANCE;

ANODES;

EID: 0033728373     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6223(99)00275-4     Document Type: Article

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