Elastic-plastic analysis of small cracks in tubes under internal pressure and bending

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 75-87

  Foxen, Jacob ^a   Rahman, Sharif ^b  

^a John Deere Dubuque Works John Deere Construction Division   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING MOMENTS; BOILING WATER REACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; TENSILE STRESS; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

CRACK OPENING DISPLACEMENT (COD);

PIPING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033904137     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(99)00258-7     Document Type: Article

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