Determination of the yield strength of nuclear reactor pressure vessel steels by means of amplitude-dependent internal friction

Journal of Nuclear Materials

Volumn 279, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 51-56

  Van Ouytsel, K ^a,b   Fabry, A ^a   De Batist, R ^c   Schaller, R ^d  

^a BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); GRAIN BOUNDARIES; INTERNAL FRICTION; NEUTRON IRRADIATION; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PRESSURE VESSELS; RADIATION EFFECTS; STEEL STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TENSILE TESTING; YIELD STRESS;

REACTOR PRESSURE VESSELS (RPV);

STEEL TESTING;

EID: 0033882159     PISSN: 00223115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3115(99)00276-7     Document Type: Article

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