Development of tubing technique for high-purity low activation vanadium alloys

Fusion Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 465-469

  Nagasaka, Takuya ^a   Muroga, Takeo ^a   Iikubo, Tomohito ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR FUSION SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Daido Bunseki Research Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CRACK INITIATION; EDDY CURRENT TESTING; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IMPURITIES; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; METALLOGRAPHIC MICROSTRUCTURE; RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); ROLLING; TENSILE STRENGTH; TENSILE TESTING; TUBING;

IMPURITY TRACING; SURFACE DEFECTS; THREE DIRECTIONAL ROLLING; ULTRASONIC INSPECTION;

VANADIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 0041911415     PISSN: 15361055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/FST03-A379     Document Type: Article

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