Radiation damage assessment by the use of dynamic toughness measurements on pre-cracked Charpy-V specimens

Institution of Chemical Engineers Symposium Series

Volumn , Issue 148, 2000, Pages 68-78

  Lucon, Enrico ^a   Chaouadi, Rachid ^a  

^a BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dynamic fracture toughness; Impact loading rate; Irradiation induced embrittlement; Loss of constraint, reference temperature; Precracked Charpy V specimens

Indexed keywords

EMBRITTLEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; HARDNESS TESTING; IMPACT TESTING; IRRADIATION; PRESSURE VESSELS; STEEL TESTING; YIELD STRESS;

REACTOR PRESSURE VESSEL STEELS;

RADIATION DAMAGE;

EID: 0034462257     PISSN: 03070492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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