Understanding pressure vessel steels: an atom probe perspective

Materials Characterization

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 235-254

  Miller, M K ^a   Pareige, P ^a,b   Burke, M G ^c  

^a Microsc Microanalytical Sci Grp   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^c BECHTEL BETTIS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBRITTLEMENT; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRANULAR MATERIALS; ION MICROSCOPES; METALLOGRAPHIC MICROSTRUCTURE; NEUTRON IRRADIATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRESSURE VESSELS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); STEEL;

ATOM PROBE FIELD MICROSCOPY; INTERGRANULAR PRECIPITATION;

MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION;

EID: 0033887325     PISSN: 10445803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1044-5803(99)00056-X     Document Type: Article

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