Plastic limit load of welded piping branch junctions under internal pressure

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-9

  Xuan, Fu Zhen ^a   Li, Pei Ning ^a   Tu, Shan Tung ^a  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR ENERGY; PIPELINES; PLASTICS;

BRANCH JUNCTIONS;

NUCLEAR ENGINEERING;

EID: 0043129031     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(03)00075-X     Document Type: Article

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