Assessment of creep crack growth in dissimilar metal welds

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 13-23

  Budden, P J ^a   Curbishley, I ^b  

^a BRITISH ENERGY GENERATION LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b RICARDO UK LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; AUSTENITE; CRACK PROPAGATION; CREEP TESTING; DISSIMILAR METALS; FERRITE; FILLER METALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; STEEL PIPE; TENSILE TESTING; WELDS;

CREEP CRACK GROWTH;

WELDED STEEL STRUCTURES;

EID: 0033905123     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(99)00255-1     Document Type: Article

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