Effect of microstructure evolution on fracture toughness in isothermally aged austenitic stainless steels for cryogenic applications

Cryogenics

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 693-700

  Saucedo Muñoz, Maribel L ^a,b   Watanabe, Yutaka ^a   Shoji, Tetsuo ^a   Takahashi, Hideaki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Austenitic stainless steels; Cryogenic; Fracture toughness; Microstructure

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; AUSTENITE; BRITTLE FRACTURE; CARBIDES; CRYOGENICS; EXPERIMENTAL REACTORS; FRACTOGRAPHY; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; FUSION REACTORS; METALLOGRAPHIC MICROSTRUCTURE; NITRIDES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS; VOLUME FRACTION;

AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEELS; INTERGRANULAR PRECIPITATION; ISOTHERMAL AGING;

STAINLESS STEEL;

EID: 0035075112     PISSN: 00112275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0011-2275(01)00004-2     Document Type: Article

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