Development of a Portable Device for Thermoelectric Power Measurement: Application to the Testing of Duplex Stainless Steel Components

Materials Evaluation

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 401-405

  Coste, Jean François ^a   Leborgne, Jean Marie ^a   Massoud, Jean Paul ^a   Grisot, Odile ^a   Borrelly, René ^b   Bouvier Volaille, Jean Louis ^b  

^a EDF R AND D   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Duplex stainless steel; Equipment maintenance; Material characterization; Nondestructive testing; Nuclear industry; Power generation; Thermal aging; Thermoelectricity

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM ALLOYS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION; STAINLESS STEEL; STEEL CORROSION; TERNARY ALLOYS; THERMAL AGING;

CAST DUPLEX STAINLESS STEELS; EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE; MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION; MEASUREMENT APPARATUS; MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PORTABLE DEVICE; POWER- GENERATIONS; PRESSURISED WATER REACTOR; STEEL COMPONENTS; THERMOELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT;

NUCLEAR INDUSTRY;

EID: 1842856130     PISSN: 00255327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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