Influences of stress intensity factor and dissolved hydrogen on the fatigue crack growth behavior of low-alloy steel in boiling water reactors

Corrosion

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 273-284

  Chen, Y Y ^a   Wang, L H ^b   Oung, J C ^b   Shih, H C ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Boiling water reactors; Eason model; Electrochemical corrosion potential; Environmentally assisted cracking; Hydrogen water chemistry; Low alloy steel; Stress intensity range

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CORROSION; BOILING WATER REACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; DATA ACQUISITION; LOADS (FORCES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; STEEL; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

DISSOLVED HYDROGEN; ENVIRONMENTALLY ASSISTED CRACKING (EAC); LOAD FREQUENCY; STRESS INTENSITY RATES;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

CORROSION;

EID: 17244367651     PISSN: 00109312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5006/1.3280636     Document Type: Article

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