State of advancement of the international REVE project: Computational modelling of irradiation-induced hardening in reactor pressure vessel steels and relevant experimental validation programme

International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, Proceedings, ICONE

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 267-274

  Malerba, Lorenzo ^a   Van Walle, Eric ^a   Domain, Christophe ^a   Jumel, Stephanie ^a   Van Duysen, Jean Claude ^a  

^a BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTRAGRANULAR SOLUTE ATOM PRECIPITATE; IRRADIATION INDUCED DEFECTS; IRRADIATION-INDUCED HARDENING; MICROSTRUCTURAL CHANGE; RATE EQUATION; REACTOR PRESSURE VESSEL STEEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFECTS; HARDENING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL TESTING; METALLOGRAPHIC MICROSTRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUTRON IRRADIATION; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PRESSURE VESSELS; YIELD STRESS;

STEEL;

EID: 0036387588     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ICONE10-22260     Document Type: Conference Paper

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