Modelling the early development of secondary side stress corrosion cracks in steam generator tubes using incomplete random tessellation

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 212, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 21-29

  Cizelj, Leon ^a   Riesch Oppermann, Heinz ^b  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; RANDOM PROCESSES; STEAM GENERATORS; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING;

RANDOM TESSELLATION; STEAM GENERATOR TUBES;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

EID: 0036500143     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(01)00474-5     Document Type: Article

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